Meaning

(literally and figuratively) Beast-like..

Definitions by Sense

1. (literally and figuratively) Beast-like.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) Cattle.

Example Sentences

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

By thee adulterous lust was driven from men / Among the bestial herds to range […]

This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.

His was a bestial face, a face that bore the stamp of Nature's eternal injustice.

Ah, if the invincible forest god of that dead past were but with them now. No longer would there be aught to fear from prowling beasts, or from the bestial Russian.

The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.

[…] much must depend upon the way in which bestial are bought or reared, and the state of the markets when they are sold.

Word Forms

• more bestial
• most bestial

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