bestial

bestial
    adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
           "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a
           dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
           [syn: {beastly}, {bestial}, {brute(a)}, {brutish},
           {brutal}]
    

Bestial \Bes"tial\, a. [F. bestial, L. bestialis, fr. bestia
   beast. See {Beast}.]
   1. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
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            Among the bestial herds to range.     --Milton.
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   2. Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity
      of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly;
      sensual. --Shak.
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   Syn: Brutish; beastly; brutal; carnal; vile; low; depraved;
        sensual; filthy.
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Bestial \Bes"tial\, n.
   A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds
   of bestial. [Scot.]
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109 Moby Thesaurus words for "bestial":
      Adamic, Circean, Draconian, Gothic, Neanderthal, Tartarean, animal,
      animalian, animalic, animalistic, anthropophagous, atrocious,
      barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, beastlike, beastly, bloodthirsty,
      bloody, bloody-minded, bodily, brutal, brutalized, brute,
      brutelike, brutish, cannibalistic, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse,
      cruel, cruel-hearted, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic,
      dumb, earthy, fallen, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish,
      fiendlike, fierce, fleshly, gross, hellish, ill-bred, impolite,
      infernal, inhuman, inhumane, instinctive, instinctual, kill-crazy,
      lapsed, malign, malignant, material, materialistic, merciless,
      mindless, murderous, noncivilized, nonrational, nonspiritual,
      orgiastic, outlandish, physical, pitiless, postlapsarian,
      primitive, rough-and-ready, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary,
      sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, slavering, subhuman,
      swinish, tameless, troglodytic, truculent, unchristian, uncivil,
      uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, ungentle,
      unhuman, unkempt, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unspiritual,
      untamed, vicious, wild, wolfish, zoic, zooidal, zoologic