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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bestial (comparative more bestial, superlative most bestial)
(literally and figuratively) Beast-like
• beastly
• animalian
• faunal
bestial pl (plural only)
(Scotland, obsolete) Cattle.
• Stabile, ableist, albites, astilbe, bastile, libates, stabile
Source: Wiktionary
Bes"tial, a. Etym: [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.
Definition: A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 April 2025
(adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade; “a coaxing and obsequious voice”; “her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
