Clues for the word "BRUTE"
We've had 73 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 145 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on December 01, 2025.
Definition of brute
- a. - Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
- a. - Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
- a. - Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
- a. - Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
- a. - Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
- n. - An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.
- n. - A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.
- v. t. - To report; to bruit.
Referring Clues
- Savage
- Savage sort
- Kind of force
- Beast
- See 8-Down
- Ruffian
- Thug
- Knuckle-dragger
- Purely physical
- No gentleman
- "Et tu, ___?"
- Simon Legree
- Forceful fellow
- Unsympathetic type
- Big bully
- "Et tu, ___?"
- Cruel one
- Crude one
- See 41 Across
- Type of force
- Savage being
- Ogre
- Cruel, as force
- Force or strength preceder
- Caesar's last word
- Barbarian
- Hulking sort
- Barbarian
- Savage beast
- Lout
- Rough fellow
- Animal
- Beast of a guy
- Merely physical
- Type of tough
- Insensitive clod
- Nasty sort
- Kind of force or strength
- "Et tu" follower
- Crude dude
- Lout or yahoo
- Manhandler
- ___ Force, aka Stephen Friedland
- Bodyguard, perhaps
- Cruel person
- This beastly fellow will never be in a rut!
- That beast Bert is wrong to go out of turn!
- Beastly way for Caesar to address his killer
- Bestial Caesar's last word?
- Live humdrum existence assumed to be without intelligence
- See 12
- Man loudly exchanging letters shows no gentle persuasion
- Beast with dry eyes, initially
- Animal munching a tuber
- Yahoo
- Bestial man
- Savage person
- Scottish island housing region's top monster
- Animal from a river in a Scottish island
- Insensitive sort
- Ill-mannered sort
- ___ force
- Thuggish person
- Savage person or animal
- Caesarean rebuke word
- Violent person
- By ___ force
- Uncouth type
- Boor
- Going out of turn, Bert upsets the blighter!
- Mean monster
- Ill-mannered person
- Person with terrible manners
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - December 01, 2025
- New York Times - October 22, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 14, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 10, 2025
- Daily American - January 16, 2025
- USA Today - December 01, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 02, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 27, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - October 14, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - October 04, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 04, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - July 31, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - June 09, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - May 06, 2024
- Your Life Choices - April 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 28, 2024
- Mirror Mini - March 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - February 12, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 29, 2024
- Daily American - January 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 11, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 08, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 16, 2023
- Your Life Choices - September 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 12, 2023
- Your Life Choices - July 03, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 02, 2023
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