Synonyms of the word brute


BRUTEAGGRESSOR - ANIMAL - ASSAILANT - ASSAULTER - ATTACKER - BEAST - BEASTLY - BEING - BESTIAL - BRUTISH - CREATURE - FAUNA - INHUMANE - ORGANISM - SAVAGE - WILDCAT - WOLF

brute

  • adj. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
  • adj. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
  • adj. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
  • adj. Crude, unpolished.
  • adj. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
  • adj. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
  • adj. Inexplicable.
  • n. (now archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
  • n. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
  • n. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
  • v. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

aggressor

  • n. The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an…

animal

  • n. In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a…
  • n. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
  • n. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc.).
  • n. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
  • n. (informal) A person of a particular type.
  • adj. Of or relating to animals.
  • adj. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
  • adj. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
  • adj. (slang, Ireland) Excellent.

assailant

  • n. Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally; an attacker.
  • n. (figuratively, by extension) A hostile critic or opponent.
  • adj. Assailing; attacking.

assaulter

  • n. One who commits assault.

attacker

  • n. Someone who attacks.
  • n. (soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal,…

beast

  • n. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous…
  • n. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
  • n. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
  • n. (slang) A large and impressive thing or structure.
  • n. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
  • n. (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
  • n. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
  • v. (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
  • adj. (slang) great; excellent; powerful.

beastly

  • adj. (Britain) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
  • adj. (Britain) Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
  • adj. (Britain, dated) Abominable.
  • adv. Like a beast; brutishly.

being

  • v. present participle of be.
  • n. A living creature.
  • n. The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
  • n. (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
  • n. (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
  • n. (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
  • conj. (obsolete) Given that; since.

bestial

  • adj. (literally and figuratively) Beast-like.

brutish

  • adj. Of, or in the manner of a brute.
  • adj. Bestial; lacking human sensibility.

creature

  • n. (now rare) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
  • n. A living being; an animal or human.
  • n. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

fauna

  • n. (uncountable) animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
  • n. (countable) a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.

inhumane

  • adj. lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind, not humane.

organism

  • n. (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
  • n. (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.

savage

  • adj. Wild; not cultivated.
  • adj. Barbaric; not civilized.
  • adj. Fierce and ferocious.
  • adj. Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
  • n. (pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
  • n. (figuratively) A defiant person.
  • v. To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
  • v. (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
  • v. (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To make savage.

wildcat

  • n. A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically.
  • n. (figuratively) A person who acts like a wildcat, (usually) a violent and easily-angered person or a sexually…
  • n. (American football) An offensive formation with an unbalanced line and a snap directly to the running…
  • n. (nautical) A wheel that can be adjusted so as to revolve either with or on the shaft of a capstan.
  • n. (firearms) Clipping of wildcat cartridge.
  • n. (uncommon) Clipping of wildcat strike, a strike undertaken without authorization from the relevant trade…
  • n. (obsolete) Clipping of wildcat money, notes issued by a wildcat bank.
  • adj. (usually pejorative) Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially.
  • adj. (firearms) Of or concerning customized or hand-made cartridges.
  • adj. Unauthorized by the proper authorities.
  • v. To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.

wolf

  • n. The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.
  • n. A man who makes amorous advances on many women.
  • n. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
  • n. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
  • n. (figuratively) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
  • n. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
  • n. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
  • n. A willying machine.
  • v. (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

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