[syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]
ADVERB (1)
1. in a beastly manner;
- Example: "she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
beastly
adv 1: in a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her
mother-in-law"
adj 1: very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful
racket" [syn: beastly, 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:
beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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