bestial

Borrowed from Old French bestial, from Late Latin bēstiālis, from Latin bēstia (“beast”) (whence English beast).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛs.ti.əl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛs.tʃəl/, /ˈbis-/

bestial (comparative more bestial, superlative most bestial)

1. (literally and figuratively) Beast-like
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, Scene 3,

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

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 753-4,

     By thee adulterous lust was driven from men /

     Among the bestial herds to range […]

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,

     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.

• beastly
• animalian

• faunal

• bestiality
• bestialize
• bestialization

• beast
• bestiary

bestial pl (plural only)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Cattle.
   • 1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Forfar, Kincardine (page 94)

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

• Stabile, ableist, albites, astilbe, bastile, libates, stabile

Borrowed from Late Latin bēstiālis, from Latin bēstia (“beast”).

• IPA^(key): /bɛs.tjal/

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• Homophones: bestiale, bestiales

bestial (feminine singular bestiale, masculine plural bestiaux, feminine plural bestiales)

1. bestial

• bête

• “bestial” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• baliste, établis

First known attestation circa 1190, borrowed from Latin bēstiālis.

bestial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bestiale)

1. bestial (of or relating to a beast)

• beste

• English: bestial
• French: bestial

Borrowed from Late Latin bēstiālis, from Latin bēstia (“beast”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨʃˈtjaɫ/
• Hyphenation: bes‧ti‧al

bestial m or f (plural bestiais, comparable)

1. bestial; brutish
2. beastly

• besta

Borrowed from French bestial, Late Latin bēstiālis, from Latin bēstia (“beast”).

• IPA^(key): [bes.tiˈal]

bestial m or n (feminine singular bestială, masculine plural bestiali, feminine and neuter plural bestiale)

1. bestial, animal
2. (informal) cool

As indicated by the informal meaning of "cool", this word does not have the same negative connotations as in English.

• animalic
• feroce
• fioros
• sălbatic

• bestie

Borrowed from Late Latin bēstiālis, from Latin bēstia (“beast”).

bestial (plural bestiales)

1. beastly
2. massive, huge, giant
3. tremendous, fantastic, awesome

• bestia