Definitions for bestial
ˈbɛs tʃəl, ˈbis-bes·tial

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutaladjective

   resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

   "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bestialadjective

   Beast-like

2. Etymology: bestialis, from bestia (whence English beast).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bestialadjective

   Etymology: from beast.

   1. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.

   His wild disorder’d walk, his haggard eyes,
   Did all the bestial citizens surprize. John Dryden, Hind and P.

   2. Having the qualities of beasts; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; carnal.

   I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   Moreover, urge his hateful luxury,
   And bestial appetite, in change of lust. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.

   For those, the race of Israel oft forsook
   Their living strength, and, unfrequented, left
   His righteous altar, bowing lowly down
   To bestial gods. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. i. l. 435.

   The things promised are not gross and carnal, such as may court and gratify the most bestial part of us. Decay of Piety.

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1. bestial

   Bestial is a 1982 music album by the Spanish group Barrabás. It was the band's eighth and penultimate album, and the last to feature several members including long-time vocalist José Luís Tejada.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bestialadjective

   belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts

2. Bestialadjective

   having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual

3. Bestialnoun

   a domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial

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1. Bestial

   Bestial is a 1982 music album by the Spanish group Barrabás. It was the band's eighth and penultimate album, and the last to feature several members including long-time vocalist José Luís Tejada.

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1. Bestial

   best′i-al, adj. like a beast: rude: brutally sensual.—n. (Scot.) a collective name for cattle.—v.t. Best′ialise, to make like a beast.—ns. Best′ialism, irrationality; Bestial′ity, beastliness: disgusting vice. [L. bestialis. See Beast.]

Anagrams for bestial »

1. ableist

2. albites

3. astilbe

4. bastile

5. stabile

6. blastie

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bestial in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bestial in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of bestial in a Sentence

1. Ahmed Korayem:

   It is simply bestial how people have an incessant need to own anything they can’t have and to destroy anything that they can’t comprehend

2. Emil Cioran:

   Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

3. Emil Cioran:

   Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

4. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev:

   Their actions showed the presence of a clear plan of attacks on military, administrative and social facilities in almost all areas, coherent coordination of actions, high combat readiness and bestial cruelty, they need to be destroyed.

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