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Definition: Bestial |
BestialAdjective1. Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bestial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: BestialSynonyms: beastly (adj), brute(a) (adj), brutish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impurity | Adulterous, incestuous, bestial. |
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Crosswords: Bestial |
| English words defined with "bestial": beastly, brute, brutish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bestial": Werewolf. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bestial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (beastly, bestial, brutish), Occitan (cattle, livestock), Portuguese (atrocious, beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish, savage, sledge hammer), Romanian (beastly, bestial, bestially, brutally, brutish, feral, ferine), Spanish (beastly, bestial, brutish). |
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 | Wild animal; lion; tiger; beast; beastly; bestial; vicious; barbaric; barbarian; barbarous; savage. |
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Charles Dickens | They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. |
Oscar Wilde | Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. |
William Shakespeare | Reputation, reputation, reputation! O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WEREWOLF, n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man. All werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite, but some, transformed by sorcery, are as humane and is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh. Some Bavarian peasants having caught a wolf one evening, tied it to a post by the tail and went to bed. The next morning nothing was there! Greatly perplexed, they consulted the local priest, who told them that their captive was undoubtedly a werewolf and had resumed its human for during the night. "The next time that you take a wolf," the good man said, "see that you chain it by the leg, and in the morning you will find a Lutheran." |
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| "Bestial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.00% of the time. "Bestial" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (proper) | 2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bestial": beastly bestial bruteprenominal brutish cannibalic. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bestial | 161 |
bestial sex | 27 |
bestial porn | 12 |
bestial sexo | 11 |
bestial story | 7 |
bestial person | 6 |
art bestial | 6 |
anal bestial | 4 |
bestial mpeg | 3 |
bestial mockery | 3 |
bestial sexe | 2 |
bestial free sex | 2 |
bestial extreme sex | 2 |
bestial record | 2 |
bestial snake | 2 |
bestial warlust | 2 |
bestial gay | 2 |
bestial summoning | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bestial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | beesagtig (beastly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | brutal (boorish, brutal, brutish, Randy, rank, rusty, slangy, truculent, unfinished, unhandsome, unrefined), shtazarak (beastly, brutish), i egër (atrocious, barbarous, cannibalic, cannibalish, cruel, despiteful, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, furious, merciless, outrageous, rabid, savage, snappish, tigerish, tigrish, vicious, wild), çnjerëzor (inhuman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | همجي (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, heathen, hooligan, outlandish, ruffian, ruffianly, savage, skinhead, uncivil, uncivilised, undisciplined, wild), وحشي (atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, feral, fiendish, fierce, ill, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, remorseless, ruffian, savage, truculent, unfeeling, vicious, wanton, wild), بهيمي (animal, beastly, brute, brutish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, 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), жесток (bloody, butcherly, cruel, dark, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, draconic, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, ghoulish, grinding, harsh, ill, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iron, mean, merciless, monstrous, outrageous, sanguinary, shrewd, slashing, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting), животински (animal, beastly, brutish, organic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 野狩般. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | brutální (beastly, brutal, strong arm, subhuman, vicious, violent), bestiální, zvířecí (animal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | beestachtig (beastly, brutal, brute, brutish, harsh), dierlýk (animal, beastly, brute, harsh), dieren- (beastly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | bestia (beastly, brutal, brutish), besteca (beastly), besta (beastly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حیوانی (Animal, Brutish), جانورخوی (Brutal, Brute), شبیه حیوان , دامی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | eläimellinen (animal, brutal, brutish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | brutal (beastly), bestial (beastly), vulgaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tierisch (animal, animally, beastly, bestially, brute, brutish, deadly), bestialisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κτηνώδησ (beastly, brutal, brute, brutish, ruffian), βάρβαροσ (barbarian, barbarous, tramontane), διεστραμμένοσ (aberrant, crooked, cross-grained, distorted, perverse, pervert, perverted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פראי (brutal, brute, feral, ferocious, fierce, savage, truculent, wild), חיתי (beastly, brute, brutish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | állatias (animalistic, beastly, brutish, feral, inhuman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | seperti binatang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | brutale (brutal, brute, brutish, tough), bestiale (beastly, brutish, feral, incredible, terrible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 獣行 (brutal or bestial act). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じゅう"う (brutal or bestial act, composure and dignity, gun point, heavy industry, muzzle, thickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | broutagh (brutal, brutish, ruffianly), beishtagh (beastly, brutish, monstrosity, monstrous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estialbay bruto (animal, beast, brute, brutish, crude, gross, illness, raw, rawhide, rude), bestial (atrocious, beastly, brutal, brutish, savage, sledge hammer), sensual (amative, boarish, brutish, carnal, concupiscent, epicureanism, fleshpot, goatling, high-sounding, incontinently, laser, Lewis, libidinousness, lubricous, lustful, sensual, sensuous, sexy, unreserved, voluptuous, wanton), depravado (abandoned, depraved, deviant, miscreant, profligate, raffish, rep, vicious, vile, wasteful). (various references) bestial (beastly, bestially, brutally, brutish, feral, ferine), animalic (beastly, brutal, brutally, brute, sensual). (various references) животный (animal). (various references) zverski (beastly, brutal), životinjski (animal, beastly, brutish). (various references) bestial (beastly, brutish). (various references) rå (advise, boundary, brute, churlish, coarse, counsel, crude, damp and chilly, fairy, foul-mouthed, fresh, green, gross, primitive, raw, rough, sprit, sprite, tough, uncooked, unmachined, vulgar, wet, yard), djurisk (animal, beastly, brute, brutish, subhuman). (various references) โห"ร้ายและน่าขยะแขยง. (various references) barbar (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, goth, gothic, heathen, heathenish, savage, uncivilized, vandal, vandalic, wild), yabani (brutal, brute, brutish, fair, feral, haggard, savage, untamed, wild), hayvani (brute, brutish), hayvanca (beastly), hayvan gibi (beastly, like an animal, swinish). (various references) wagюylarзa (brutal). (various references) розпусний (debauched, lecherous, libertine, lickerish, meretricious, profligate, rakish, riotous, salacious, wide), тваринний (animal, zoological), нестриманий (abandoned, expansive, immoderate, incontinent, inordinate, outgiving, unchecked, unreserved, unrestrained, unsuppressed), безсоромний (barefaced, cynical, graceless, impudent, obscene, shameless, unabashed, unblushing). (various references) dã man (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, barbarously, ferocious, inhumanly, sanguinary, savagely), có tính súc vật cục súc, đầy thú tính dâm đãng, độc ác (cruel, cruelly, devilish, godless, malign, sinister, venomous), đ"i truỵ. (various references) bwystfilaidd (beastly, brutish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | bestialis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bestial": bestialities, bestiality, bestialize, bestialized, bestializes, bestializing, bestially. (additional references) | |
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"Bestial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: basial, Bastica, bastida, bastile, bastinal, Bastola, Battiwala, beastial, Belsteel, Bentil, bertalan, Bertil, Bertoia, Bertola, bestail, bestaily, bestal, Bestall, besti, bestia, Bestie, betia, Bettiah, Bostall, Bsteii, festial, mesotidal, oestriol, vestial. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bestial" (pronounced be"skhul) |
| 5 | -e" s kh u l | celestial. |
| 3 | -kh u l | circumstantial, consequential, credential, deferential, differential, existential, exponential, hatchel, inconsequential, influential, insubstantial, nonessential, nuptial, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, residential, reverential, sequential, substantial, tangential, torrential. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: albites, astilbe, bastile, blastie, stabile. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ablest, abseil, albeit, albite, bleats, blites, saltie, stable, stelai, tables. | |
-2 letters: abets, ables, aisle, alist, bails, baits, bales, basil, baste, bates, beast, beats, belts, betas, biles, bites, blase, blast, blate, blats, bleat, blest, blets, blite, islet, istle, least, litas, sable, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, stile, tabes, table, taels, tails, tales, teals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: astilbes, balkiest, balmiest, bastiles, bastille, bimetals, blastier, blasties, epiblast, instable, labiates, lambiest, librates, listable, satiable, sibilate, stabiles, suitable, timbales. | |
+2 letters: abilities, ablatives, bailments, ballistae, ballsiest, basipetal, bastilles, baulkiest, beastlier, bestially, biacetyls, bisulfate, bivalents, blastiest, bleariest, bloviates, brawliest, brutalise, celibates, epiblasts, establish, estimable, estimably, flabbiest, fleabites, herbalist, jubilates, laborites, libelants, liberates, lifeboats, marbliest, obligates, shiftable, sibilated, sibilates, stabilize, stainable, strobilae, sublimate, tailbones, tangibles, verbalist, visitable, wabbliest, wambliest. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 73 74 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . ... - .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e s t i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0073 0074 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36718586756778 |
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