brute

Definitions of brute in various dictionaries:

noun - a cruelly rapacious person

noun - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

adj - resembling a beast

An animal; a beast.

A brutal, crude, or insensitive person.

Of or relating to beasts; animal: “None of the brute creation requires more than food and shelter” (Henry David Thoreau).

Entirely physical: brute force.

Lacking or showing a lack of reason or intelligence: a brute impulse.

Savage; cruel: brute coercion.

Unremittingly severe: was driven to steal food through brute necessity.

These adj ectives apply to what is more characteristic of lower animals than of human beings.

verb - to shape a diamond by rubbing it with another diamond