BEASTLIER

BEASTLY

beastly, bestial, brute, brutish, brutal

(adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; “beastly desires”; “a bestial nature”; “brute force”; “a dull and brutish man”; “bestial treatment of prisoners”

beastly, hellish, god-awful

(adjective) (informal) very unpleasant; “hellish weather”; “stop that god-awful racket”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

beastlier

comparative form of beastly

Anagrams

• beertails, bleariest, iterables, liberates

Source: Wiktionary


BEASTLY

Beast"ly, a.

1. Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast. Beastly divinities and droves of gods. Prior.

2. Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy. The beastly vice of drinking to excess. Swift.

3. Abominable; as, beastly weather. [Colloq. Eng.]

Syn.

– Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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