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adjective
- 1. of or like an animal or animals: "Darwin's revelations about our bestial beginnings" Similar
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Learn the meaning of bestial, an adjective that describes something or someone resembling a beast, lacking intelligence or reason, or brutal and inhuman. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related articles.
Aug 19, 2015 · Bestial means cruel or like an animal, or fierce and cruel, and without any human feelings. See examples, pronunciation, and translations of bestial in different languages.
Bestial means of, relating to, or having the form of a beast, or without reason or intelligence. It can also mean beastlike in gratifying one's sensual desires or lacking in refinement. See the origin, derived forms, and usage examples of bestial.
When a human acts like an animal, their behavior is called bestial. Bestial is often used to describe behavior that is primitive or uncivilized. If someone living on a desert island took to grunting and crawling on all fours searching for bugs in dirt, you could say she had descended to the bestial.
Definition of bestial adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you describe behaviour or a situation as bestial, you mean that it is very unpleasant or disgusting. The police have failed to protect vulnerable women despite repeated and bestial attacks. ...the bestial conditions into which the city has sunk.
Bestial means brutal, depraved, or resembling a beast. Find the origin, usage, and examples of bestial and its related words in various dictionaries and thesaurus.
