brute

1. 1.

   resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

   “beastly desires”

   “a bestial nature”

   “brute force”

   “a dull and brutish man”

   “bestial treatment of prisoners”

   Synonymsbeastlybestialbrutishbrutal

   Similarinhumane

Other forms of brute

plural

brutes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brute

What does brute mean?

brute means "a cruelly rapacious person". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brute?

brute has 1 syllable: brute. In IPA it is /ˈbɹut/.

What is another word for brute?

Close synonyms include beast, wolf, savage, wildcat, animal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brute a common word?

brute is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with brute?

1 word rhymes with brute. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.