About The Word Bestial
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Bestial
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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.] |
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