brute

Meanings

Adjective

• Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
• Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
• Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
• Crude, unpolished.
• Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
• Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.

Noun

• An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
• A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
• A kind of powerful spotlight.
• One who has not yet matriculated.

Verb

• To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.

Origin

• From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus, an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us. Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς, Persian گران and Sanskrit गुरु (English guru).