brute

Without reason or intelligence (of animals).

• a brute beast

Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).

• A creature […] not prone / And brute as other creatures, but endued / With sanctity of reason.

Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.

• the brute earth; the brute powers of nature

Crude, unpolished.

• a great brute farmer from Liddesdale

Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.

• I got the door open through brute force.

Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.

• brute violence

An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.archaic

• ‘That animal has a charmed life,’ he said; ‘but you can say this only of brutes in this country. No man—you apprehend me?—no man here bears a charmed life.’
• “I would then never have known what minute, or by whom, I was to be attacked next. But the brutes are more chivalrous than man—they do not stoop to cowardly intrigue.”

A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.

• One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."

A kind of powerful spotlight.

• For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]
• At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.

One who has not yet matriculated.UKarchaic

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

Obsolete spelling of bruit.alt-ofobsolete