• Finnish: elukka, eläin
• Hebrew: בהמה (behema)
• Ido: bruto
• Italian: bruto

• Finnish: elukka, raakalainen
• Hebrew: בהמה (behema)
• Ido: bruto
• Italian: bruto
• Norwegian: bølle
• Slovenian: grobijan, brdavs

Derived terms

• brutal
• brutality
• brute force
• brutish

Verb

1. To report; to bruit.

Adjective

1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
4. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
5. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.

Translations

• Finnish: eläimellinen (1-5), raaka (1,3)
• Italian: bruto, bruta

French

Adjective

1. Form of feminine, brut

Italian

Adjective

brute

1. Feminine plural form of bruto

Brute has several meanings: Brute (Describes the characteristics of a person of low intelligence. A person can also be described as 'brutish', which also has the same meaning.

• Brute (anime), a series in development in 2007 by Studio SCANIME.
• Brute (song), a 1995 single by the industrial music group KMFDM
• Brute (comics), any of several comics characters from Marvel, Atlas/Seaboard and DC Comics.
• brute., a side project band of Vic Chesnutt and the members of the Widespread Panic
• BRUTE! a.k.a. Aidan Hughes, a British artist
• Brute (City of Villains), a character archetype in the computer game City of Villains
• Brute (Halo), an alien race in the Halo video game series
• Brute force, a method of computing
• Brutes, the enemies of the Unreal computer game
• Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's most famous assassin, as in "Et tu, Brute?"
• BRUTE is a acronym for British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment.

See also

Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Goth, Mafioso, Neanderthal, Tartarean, Young Turk, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic, anthropophagite, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beast, beastlike, beastly, beldam, berserk, berserker, bestial, blind, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bodily, bomber, brutal, brutalized, brutelike, brutish, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, creature, creeping thing, critter, cruel, cruel-hearted, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, destroyer, devil, devilish, diabolic, dragon, dull, dumb, dumb animal, dumb friend, earthy, fallen, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiend, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fire-eater, firebrand, fleshly, fury, goon, gorilla, gross, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hellish, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hyena, incendiary, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, instinctive, instinctual, irrational, killer, lapsed, living being, living thing, mad dog, madcap, man-eater, material, materialistic, mindless, monster, mugger, murderous, nihilist, nonrational, nonspiritual, orgiastic, physical, postlapsarian, rapist, revolutionary, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, senseless, shark, sharkish, she-wolf, slavering, spitfire, subhuman, swinish, termagant, terror, terrorist, thoughtless, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, troglodyte, truculent, ugly customer, unchristian, uncivilized, unconscious, unfeeling, unhuman, unintelligent, unreasoning, unspiritual, unthinking, vandal, varmint, vicious, violent, virago, vixen, wild beast, wild man, witch, wolf, wolfish, wrecker, zoic, zooidal, zoologic