brute vs pest

brute and pest both are nouns.

brute is an adjective but pest is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brute	Yes	Yes	No	No
pest	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pest is a hyponym of brute; that is, pest is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than brute:

brute: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
pest: any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

Other hyponyms of brute include critter, creepy-crawly, darter, peeper, homeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm, ectotherm, poikilotherm, range animal, varment, varmint, scavenger, work animal, domestic animal, domesticated animal, feeder, migrator, molter, moulter, pet, stayer, stunt, marine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature, female, male, adult, offspring, young, pureblood, purebred, thoroughbred, giant, survivor, mutant, herbivore, insectivore, acrodont, pleurodont, zooplankton, conceptus, embryo, fertilized egg, chordate, invertebrate, metazoan, omnivore, predator, predatory animal, prey, quarry, game, hexapod, biped, larva, racer, fictional animal, captive, mate, albino, spirit animal.

brute (noun)	pest (noun)
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement	any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
a cruelly rapacious person	a persistently annoying person
	any epidemic disease with a high death rate
	a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

brute (adjective)	pest (adjective)
resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

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