bestial

Speech parts

1. bestial - Noun

2. bestial - Adjective

3. bestial - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.

Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual.

A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

beastly brutal brutish brute sensual carnal depraved savage paroxysmal low physical animal zoological hard fell
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Antonyms

gallant beneficent human good humane earthborn
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Phrases with the word

bestial power bestial deformity bestial nature

Anagrams

astilbe stabile ableist bastile

Examples

For once you must try not to shirk the facts mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. Bertolt Brecht

We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial. George Steiner

The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. Patricia Highsmith

People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. Winston Churchill

The Afro-American is not a bestial race. Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Close letter words and terms

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