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BEASTLY
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Irregular inflected forms: beastlier , beastliest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
Example:
bestial treatment of prisoners
Synonyms:
beastly; bestial; brutal; brute; brutish
Classified under:
Similar:
inhumane (lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion)
Derivation:
beast (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
beastliness (the quality of being deliberately mean)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(informal) very unpleasant
Example:
stop that god-awful racket
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Derivation:
beastliness (unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a beastly manner
Example:
she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law
Classified under:
Pertainym:
beastly (resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility)
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