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bestial

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Adjective
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bes=tial

CIDE DICTIONARY

bestiala. [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.
bestialn. 
     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.

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, zoologic

ROGET THESAURUS

bestial

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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