About The Word Bestial
Learn about the word Bestial to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Bestial definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Bestial
| Bestial Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Bestial?
[adj] resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bestial: beastly | brute(a) | brutish | inhumane Related Terms | Find terms related to Bestial: Adamic | animal | animalian | animalic | animalistic | anthropophagous | atrocious | barbarian | barbaric | barbarous | beastlike | beastly | bloodthirsty | bloody | bloody-minded | bodily | brutal | brutalized | brute | brutelike | brutish | cannibalistic | carnal | carnal-minded | Circean | coarse | cruel | cruel-hearted | demoniac | demoniacal | devilish | diabolic | Draconian | dumb | earthy | fallen | fell | feral | ferine | ferocious | fiendish | fiendlike | fierce | fleshly | Gothic | gross | hellish | ill-bred | impolite | infernal | inhuman | inhumane | instinctive | instinctual | kill-crazy | lapsed | malign | malignant | material | materialistic | merciless | mindless | murderous | Neanderthal | noncivilized | nonrational | nonspiritual | orgiastic | outlandish | physical | pitiless | postlapsarian | primitive | rough-and-ready | ruthless | sadistic | sanguinary | sanguineous | satanic | savage | sharkish | slavering | subhuman | swinish | tameless | Tartarean | troglodytic | truculent | unchristian | uncivil | uncivilized | uncombed | uncouth | uncultivated | uncultured | ungentle | unhuman | unkempt | unlicked | unpolished | unrefined | unspiritual | untamed | vicious | wild | wolfish | zoic | zooidal | zoologic See Also | Bestial In Webster's Dictionary \Bes"tial\, a. [F. bestial, L. bestialis, fr. bestia
beast. See {Beast}.]
1. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
Among the bestial herds to range. --Milton.
2. Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity
of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly;
sensual. --Shak.
Syn: Brutish; beastly; brutal; carnal; vile; low; depraved;
sensual; filthy.
\Bes"tial\, n. A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [Scot.] |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Specular ‐ capable of reflecting light like a mirror; "mirrorlike surface…
- Timor ‐ an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest…
- Guyot ‐ a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the…
- Marginal placentation ‐ with ovules borne on the wall along the ventral suture of a simple…
- Genus euarctos ‐ American black bears; in some classifications not a separate…
- Gravitational attraction ‐ (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe;…
- Family endamoebidae ‐ a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive…
- Ball field ‐ the baseball…
- Glottis spuria ‐ the opening between the false…
- Vena vestibularis ‐ veins that drain the saccule…