not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.-not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.-of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. hence: brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.-having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.-rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.-an animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.-a brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.-to report; to bruit.