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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective bestial has 1 sense
- bestial(s = adj.all) beastly, brutal, brute, brutish - resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" Derived forms noun beast1, noun bestiality1, verb bestialize1
CIDE DICTIONARY
bestial, a. [F. bestial, L. bestialis, fr. bestia beast. See Beast.].
- Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. [1913 Webster]" Among the bestial herds to range." [1913 Webster]
- Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. Shak. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Brutish; beastly; brutal; carnal; vile; low; depraved; sensual; filthy.
bestial, n.
A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bestial, adj.
1 brutish, cruel, savage.
2 sexually depraved; lustful.
3 of or like a beast.
1 brutish, cruel, savage.
2 sexually depraved; lustful.
3 of or like a beast.
Derivative
bestialize v.tr. (also -ise). bestially adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. LL bestialis f. bestia beast
THESAURUS
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, zoologicROGET THESAURUS
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Impurity
N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.
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