BRUTE meaning: A person displaying aggressive insensitivity

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word brute:

General (29 matching dictionaries)

brute: Merriam-Webster
brute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
brute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
brute: Collins English Dictionary
brute: Vocabulary.com
Brute, brute: Wordnik
brute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
brute: Wiktionary
brute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
brute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
brute: Infoplease Dictionary
Brute, brute: Dictionary.com
brute (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
brute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Brute (Morlocks), Brute (Reed Richards), Brute (album), Brute (band), Brute (song), Brute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Brute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
brute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
brute: Rhymezone
brute, brute (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
brute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Brute: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
BRUTE, Brute: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
Brute: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
brute: FreeDictionary.org
brute: Mnemonic Dictionary
brute: TheFreeDictionary.com
brute: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

brute: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

brute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

BRUTE: Acronym Finder
brute: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

brute: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Brute: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
▸ adjective:  Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
▸ adjective:  Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
▸ adjective:  Crude, unpolished.
▸ adjective:  Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
▸ adjective:  Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
▸ noun:  (archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
▸ noun:  A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.
▸ noun:  (film, television) A kind of powerful spotlight.
▸ noun:  (archaic, UK, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
▸ verb:  Obsolete spelling of bruit. [(transitive, archaic in British, current in the US) To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc.]

Similar:

inhumane, brutish, savage, bestial, beast, beastly, creature, wolf, fauna, animal, more...

Opposite:

civilized, cultured, refined, sophisticated

Phrases:

brute force, brute fact, brute force attack, brute force and ignorance, et tu brute, more...

Adjectives:

poor, big, great, little, such, old, ugly, dumb, drunken, savage, selfish

Colors:

dark red, charcoal, olive green, rust, blood red, more...