Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
In an animalistic way; bestially; in the manner of an animal..
[...] “and in general wantonly pursues pleasure in an animal fashion in all of his sexual activities,” or it means, “he pursues pleasure animalistically with women, begetting children, and also animalistically with men, having sex for pleasure only,” [...]
[...] of a dehumanizing bestiality comes in the off-hand aside that types the Kalahari Bushman as an animalistically undisciplined alien [which] speaks for an emotively entrenched scale of prejudice defined around the stigma of subhumanness.
She'd been exhausted and drunk even before the call. Then three hours and a magnum later, out in the cold, her melting brain had animalistically forced her to stay conscious so she wouldn't fall over and die in the snow.
Use animalistically when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Animalistically means In an animalistic way; bestially; in the manner of an animal..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[...] “and in general wantonly pursues pleasure in an animal fashion in all of his sexual activities,” or it means, “he pursues pleasure animalistically with women, begetting children, and also animalistically with men, having sex for pleasure only,” [...]
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.