Beastly

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beastly \Beast"ly\ (b[=e]st"l[y^]), a.
     1. Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a
        beast.
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              Beastly divinities and droves of gods. --Prior.


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     2. Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the
        nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
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              The beastly vice of drinking to excess. --Swift.
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     3. Abominable; as, beastly weather. [Colloq. Eng.]
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     Syn: Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  beastly
       adj 1: very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful
              racket" [syn: {hellish}, {god-awful}]
       2: 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: {bestial}, {brute(a)}, {brutish}]
       adv : in a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her
             mother-in-law"
       [also: {beastliest}, {beastlier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  205 Moby Thesaurus words for "beastly":
     Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Tartarean, abhorrent, abominable,
     abrupt, aggressive, animal, animalian, animalic, animalistic,
     anthropophagous, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, baneful,
     barbaric, barbarous, base, bearish, beastlike, below contempt,
     beneath contempt, bestial, blameworthy, bloodthirsty, bloody,
     bloody-minded, bluff, blunt, bodily, boorish, brash, brusque,
     brutal, brutalized, brute, brutelike, brutish, cannibalistic,
     carnal, carnal-minded, cavalier, churlish, coarse, contemptible,
     crude, cruel, cruel-hearted, crusty, curt, demoniac, demoniacal,
     deplorable, despicable, detestable, devilish, diabolic, dire,
     dirty, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, dumb, earthy, egregious,
     enormous, execrable, fallen, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fetid,
     fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, filthy, flagrant, fleshly, forbidding,
     foul, fulsome, ghastly, grievous, grim, gross, gruff, harsh,
     hateful, heinous, hellish, hideous, hoggish, horrendous, horrible,
     horrid, horrific, horrifying, ignoble, infamous, infernal, inhuman,
     inhumane, instinctive, instinctual, intolerable, lamentable,
     lapsed, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, material, materialistic,
     mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mindless, monstrous, murderous, nasty,
     nauseating, nefarious, noisome, nonrational, nonspiritual,
     notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious,
     offensive, orgiastic, outrageous, physical, piggish, pitiable,
     pitiful, postlapsarian, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent,
     reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, rough,
     rude, ruthless, sad, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic,
     savage, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, severe, shabby, shameful,
     sharkish, sharp, shocking, shoddy, short, sickening, slavering,
     snippy, sordid, squalid, stinking, subhuman, surly, swinish,
     terrible, too bad, tragic, truculent, unchristian, uncivil,
     uncivilized, unclean, uncultivated, unhuman, unpleasant, unrefined,
     unspeakable, unspiritual, vicious, vile, villainous, woeful,
     wolfish, worst, worthless, wretched, zoic, zooidal, zoologic