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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.
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.
adjective. of, relating to, or having the form of a beast: the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac. without reason or intelligence; brutal; inhuman: bestial treatment of prisoners. beastlike in gratifying one's sensual desires; carnal; debased. bestial. / ˈbɛstɪəl / adjective.
Bestial means cruel and horrible; of or like a beast. Learn how to use this formal adjective with pictures, pronunciation and usage notes.
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.
Bestial means very unpleasant or disgusting, or brutal, savage, or beastlike. It can also mean sexually depraved or carnal. See examples, pronunciation, and word origin of bestial.
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.
