Bestial
['bestɪəl] or ['bɛtʃəl]
Definition
(a.) Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
(a.) Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual.
(n.) A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Beastly, brutal, brutish, irrational, sensual.
Edited by Jason
Definition
adj. like a beast: rude: brutally sensual.—n. (Scot.) a collective name for cattle.—v.t. Best′ialise to make like a beast.—ns. Best′ialism irrationality; Bestial′ity beastliness: disgusting vice.
Editor: Rosanne
Examples
- A horrid scream of bestial rage broke from the banth as he felt warm flesh beneath his powerful talons. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- So bestial, they two! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Why not be bestial, and go the whole round of experience? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At length the apes spied the huddled knot of terror-stricken maidens and with demoniacal shrieks of bestial frenzy, charged upon them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was a bestial life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Rosanne