Beastly

Definition: Beastly

Beastly

Adjective

1. Very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket".

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".

Adverb

1. In a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "beastly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Beastly

Uncleanness

Nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy; fetid.

Crosswords: Beastly

Murdered? Poor carrots. How beastly! (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

Weather beastly and so is my host (Midnight Lace; writing credit: Janet Green; Ivan Goff)

Beastly Behaviour (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Beastly Abodes: Homes for Birds, Bats, Butterflies and Other Backyard Wildlife (reference)

• DK Readers: Beastly Tales (Level 3: Reading Alone) (reference)

• Non Sequitur's Beastly Things (reference)

• Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables (reference)

• The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Beastly Behaviour (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

I'm always so glad when they've got a policeman at this beastly spot : then if ... Credit: Library of Congress.

It's the same man. Beastly little brats! It's a boy! Hee hee! The little rascal! ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish

The wonder is how they, how you and I, can live this slimy, beastly life, eating and drinking

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "beastly": beastly bestial bruteprenominal brutish cannibalic ♦ beastly difficult ♦ beastly weather ♦ in a beastly manner ♦ what beastly weather!. Additional references.

Ending with "beastly": b-beastly, with-beastly.

Afrikaans

beesagtig (bestial). (various references)

Albanian

tepër (confoundedly, damnably, dearly, excessively, extremely, frightfully, greatly, highly, most, overly, overmuch, overwhelmingly, parlous, passing, pathetically, precious, so, too, too much, unduly, very), shtazarak (bestial, brutish), kafshëror (animal), i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, odious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لا أخلاقي (wrong), ‏قذر (augean, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏إلى حد بغيض, ‏أللاأخلاقي, ‏بهيمي (animal, bestial, brute, brutish), ‏بغيض (abominable, accursed, antipathetic, blasted, cursed, damned, detestable, distasteful, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, hateful, horrid, impossible, nasty, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, sticky, ungrateful, unhappy, unlikely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome, villainous), ‏بإفراط (deadly, exceedingly, excessively, extremely, hard, overmuch, passing, unduly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отвратително (cursedly, damnably, disgustingly, foully, ghastly, offensively, queasily, shocking), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), зверски (atrocious, enormous, monstrous), животински (animal, bestial, brutish, organic). (various references)

Czech

brutální (bestial, brutal, strong arm, subhuman, vicious, violent), zvířecký (brutish), protivný (aggravating, bitchy, disagreeable, hateful, horrid, irksome, lousy, molestful, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, odious), hnusný (abhorrent, detestable, dirty, disgusting, execrable, feculent, foul, horrible, loathsome, revolting, stinking, verminous, vile), šeredný (foul, hideous, nasty, ugly). (various references)

Dutch

beestachtig (bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, harsh), dierlýk (animal, bestial, brute, harsh), dieren- (bestial). (various references)

Esperanto

bestia (bestial, brutal, brutish), besteca (bestial), besta (bestial). (various references)

Finnish

sikamainen (bloody, dirty, swinish), sikahumala (bloody, dirty, swinish). (various references)

French

brutal (bestial), bestial (bestial), vachement, terriblement, dégoûtant. (various references)

German

biestig (ratty), viehisch (brute, brutish, swinish), tierisch (animal, animally, bestial, bestially, brute, brutish, deadly), scheußlich (abominable, atrocious, atrociously, awful, dreadful, execrable, hideous, nastily, nasty, putrid, revolting, ungodly, vile), saumäßig (bloody, like hell, lousily, lousy, piggish, piggishly), gemein (abject, abominable, base, basely, bitchy, caitiff, cheap, coarse, common, cussedly, dirty, disreputable, foul, horrid, horridly, infamous, invidious, joint, low, lower case, malicious, maliciously, mean, meanly, miscreant, miserable, miserably, nastily, nasty, paltry, rascally, reptilian, rotten, scurillously, scurvily, scurvy, sordid, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, ugly, unkind, unkindly, vicious, vile, vilely, villainous, vulgar, wicked). (various references)

Greek 

κτηνώδησ (bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, ruffian), άθλιοσ (abject, beggarly, caitiff, forlorn, miserable, putrid, scullion, squalid, unblessed, Unblest, villainous, wretched). (various references)

Hebrew 

חיתי (bestial, brute, brutish), ב�"מי (animal, brute, brutish). (various references)

Hungarian

brutális (atrocious, brutal, inhuman, ruffianly), durván (boorishly, churlishly, crassly, grossly, harshly, impiously, outrageously, rough, roughly), állatiasan, állatias (animalistic, bestial, brutish, feral, inhuman), állati (animal, animalistic, brutal, brutish, crackajack, crack-a-jack, feral, inhuman, zoological). (various references)

Italian

bestiale (bestial, brutish, feral, incredible, terrible), orribile (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, dreadful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrific, macabre, revolting, shocking), abominevole (abominable, dismal, dreary, ghastly, hideous, horrible, nasty, nefarious). (various references)

Manx

beishtagh (bestial, brutish, monstrosity, monstrous). (various references)

Norwegian

dyrisk, avskyelig (abhorrent, abominable, detestable). (various references)

Pig Latin

eastlybay.(various references)

Portuguese

brutal (brutal, brute, brutish, cruel, harsh, rough, rude), bestial (atrocious, bestial, brutal, brutish, savage, sledge-hammer), desagradável (bad, bleak, brackish, crabbed, desagreeable, disagreeable, disgusting, dismal, displeasing, distasteful, dreadful, dreary, fearful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, seamy, ugly, uncomfortable, uncongenial, undesirable, ungrateful, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unthankful, untoward, unwelcome, unwished), aborrecido (annoyed, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, drab, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, horrid, irksome, jaded, meddler, morose, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried, worrisome). (various references)

Romanian

brutal (boorish, brutal, brutally, cruelly, feral, insensate, rough, roughly, rude, savage, savagely, truculent, violent), bestial (bestial, bestially, brutally, brutish, feral, ferine), nesuferit (horrid, pestilent, unbearable), neplãcut (acrid, annoying, bad, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, provoking, snuffy, sorry, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), dobitocesc (brutish), câinesc (canine, currish, doggish, doggy, dog's, harsh), animalic (bestial, brutal, brutally, brute, sensual), îngrozitor (abominable, appalling, awful, awfully, desperate, direful, dreadful, grisly, hideous, horrible, shocking, terrible, terribly, terrific, tremendous). (various references)

Russian 

ужасно (atrociously, awesomely, awfully, bally, confoundedly, damnably, dooms, fearfully, frightfully, ghastly, miserably, terribly). (various references)

Scottish

trù (a beastly being, traitor, villain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zversko, zverski (bestial, brutal), odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile), gadan (disgustful, disgusting, foul, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, seamy, sick, ugly, vile), životinjsko, životinjski (animal, bestial, brutish). (various references)

Spanish

bestial (bestial, brutish). (various references)

Swedish

otäck (filthy, hidecous, hideous, horrid, nasty, ugly, unearthly, wicked, wickedness), gräslig (abysmal, atrocious, awful, dire, dreadful, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, rible, terrible, ugly, unsightly, vile), djurisk (animal, bestial, brute, brutish, subhuman), avskyvärd (abhorrent, abominable, astrocious, detestable, execrable, heinous, loathful, loathsome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, stinking, unspeakable). (various references)

Turkish

berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), sevimsiz (angular, grotty, unamiable, unattractive, uncongenial, ungracious, unlikable, unlikeable, unlovable, unlovely, unprepossessing, unsympathetic), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), hayvanca (bestial), hayvan gibi (bestial, like an animal, swinish), aşırı (acute, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), çirkin (eldritch, flagrant, foul, god-awful, heinous, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, inelegant, misshapen, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, plain, seamy, shapeless, ugly, unattractive, uncomely, uncouth, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasant, unsightly). (various references)

Ukrainian

свинський (hoggish, piggish, swinish), гидкий (abominable, fulsome, noisome), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), непристойний (bad, bawdy, blue, coarse, dirty, fie-fie, foul, graceless, greasy, immodest, improper, impure, indecent, lewd, nasty, nubbly, obscene, off color, off colour, paw-paw, ribald, salacious, salt, scabrous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, sultry, unbecoming, unchaste), непри�"мний (acerbic, bad, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, distasteful, grisly, hack, importune, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, snooty, tedious, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome), жахливо (almighty, appallingly, awfully, bitter, devilish, dogged, dreadfully, fearfully, ferociously, frightfully, grievously, horribly, lamentably, sadly, woefully), брудний (bawdy, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean), бридко (hideously, nastily, offensively), по-свинському. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thô lỗ (ill-mannered, indelicate, loutish, plebeian, snippety, snippy, underbred, ungentle), như súc vật, khó chịu (accursed, accurst, annoyed, colour, devil, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, incommodious, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, obtrusive, plaguesome, queer, tiresome, unacceptable, unpleasant, unpleasing, vile, vinegar), cục cằn; hung bạo bần, cực kỳ (damned, deadly, dogged, frightfuly, mortally, most, parlous, ripping, thundering, whacking), đáng tởm. (various references)

Welsh

bwystfilaidd (bestial, brutish), anifeilaidd (animal, brutish). (various references)

foedam, foede, foedum, foedus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Beastly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beastily, Beastley, beasty, Beatley, Beesly, beisly, Beisty, Benatsky, Bestley, boastl, bustly, feastly, yeastly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ablest, basely, belays, blasty, bleats, lysate, slatey, stable, stably, tables.

-2 letters: abets, ables, abyes, bales, baste, bates, beast, beats, belay, belts, betas, blase, blast, blate, blats, bleat, blest, blets, bytes, least, lyase, sable, salty, setal, slate, slaty, stale, steal, stela, style, tabes, table, taels, tales, teals, tesla, yeast.

-3 letters: abet, able, ably, abye.

+1 letter: absently, beltways.

+2 letters: bestially, betrayals, biacetyls, butylates, estimably, stylobate, tabooleys.

+3 letters: absolutely, abstrusely, bestiality, detestably, metastably, molybdates, myeloblast, obeisantly, sewability, stylobates, subacutely, twayblades.

+4 letters: abstinently, basipetally, beauteously, bisexuality, chalybeates, erasability, feasibility, inestimably, myeloblasts, observantly, obstinately, polysorbate, presentably, respectably, reusability, subjacently, sublethally, subliteracy, subliterary, syllabicate, testability, treasonably, trisyllable.

+5 letters: abstemiously, abstractedly, amblygonites, breathlessly, carboxylates, demonstrably, desirability, disreputably, dyeabilities, erythroblast, myeloblastic, octosyllable, plebiscitary, polysorbates, presbyterial, questionably, separability, severability, shareability, subcentrally, subspecialty, syllabicated, syllabicates, trisyllables.