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 Definitions for bestial: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Bestial \Bes"tial\, a. [F. bestial, L. bestialis, fr. bestia
beast. See Beast.]
1. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
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Among the bestial herds to range. --Milton.
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2. Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity
of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly;
sensual. --Shak.
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Syn: Brutish; beastly; brutal; carnal; vile; low; depraved;
sensual; filthy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Bestial \Bes"tial\, n.
A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds
of bestial. [Scot.]
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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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" [syn: beastly, {brute(a)}, brutish]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "bestial":
Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Gothic, Neanderthal, Tartarean, 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, coarse,
cruel, cruel-hearted, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic,
dumb, earthy, fallen, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish,
fiendlike, fierce, fleshly, gross, hellish, ill-bred, impolite,
infernal, inhuman, inhumane, instinctive, instinctual, kill-crazy,
lapsed, malign, malignant, material, materialistic, merciless,
mindless, murderous, noncivilized, nonrational, nonspiritual,
orgiastic, outlandish, physical, pitiless, postlapsarian,
primitive, rough-and-ready, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary,
sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, slavering, subhuman,
swinish, tameless, troglodytic, truculent, unchristian, uncivil,
uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, ungentle,
unhuman, unkempt, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unspiritual,
untamed, vicious, wild, wolfish, zoic, zooidal, zoologic
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