BEASTLINESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("beastliness" is a kind of...):

nastiness (the quality of being highly unpleasant)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

beastly ((informal) very unpleasant)

Meaning:

The quality of being deliberately mean

Synonyms:

beastliness; meanness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("beastliness" is a kind of...):

malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)

Derivation:

beastly (resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility)