survivor vs brute

survivor and brute both are nouns.

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

As nouns, brute is a hypernym of survivor; that is, brute is a word with a broader meaning than survivor:

Other hypernyms of survivor include animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna.

survivor (noun)	brute (noun)
an animal that survives in spite of adversity	a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
one who outlives another	a cruelly rapacious person
one who lives through affliction

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