'Bestial' definitions:
Definition of 'bestial'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Bestial'
From: GCIDE
- Bestial \Bes"tial\, a. [F. bestial, L. bestialis, fr. bestia beast. See Beast.]
- 1. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts. [1913 Webster]
- Among the bestial herds to range. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bestial'
From: GCIDE
- Bestial \Bes"tial\, n. A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bestial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Adamic,
- 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,
- Circean,
- coarse,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- Draconian,
- dumb,
- earthy,
- fallen,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferine,
- ferocious,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- fleshly,
- Gothic,
- gross,
- hellish,
- ill-bred,
- impolite,
- infernal,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- instinctive,
- instinctual,
- kill-crazy,
- lapsed,
- malign,
- malignant,
- material,
- materialistic,
- merciless,
- mindless,
- murderous,
- Neanderthal,
- noncivilized,
- nonrational,
- nonspiritual,
- orgiastic,
- outlandish,
- physical,
- pitiless,
- postlapsarian,
- primitive,
- rough-and-ready,
- ruthless,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- sharkish,
- slavering,
- subhuman,
- swinish,
- tameless,
- Tartarean,
- troglodytic,
- truculent,
- unchristian,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncombed,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- ungentle,
- unhuman,
- unkempt,
- unlicked,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unspiritual,
- untamed,
- vicious,
- wild,
- wolfish,
- zoic,
- zooidal,
- zoologic