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1.
of, pertaining to, or having the form of a beast: the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac.
2.
without reason or intelligence; brutal; inhuman: bestial treatment of prisoners.
3.
beastlike in gratifying one's sensual desires; carnal; debased.
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Example Sentences
- He is concerned with the bestial use of workers on yerba maté, plantations at the turn of the century.
- To bemoan such savagery as accursed, inhuman and bestial does not even begin to describe it.
- But his view of humanity is a bleak one, predicated as it is on the bestial uniformity of the species.
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Word Origin & History
bestial
late 14c., from O.Fr. bestial (13c.) "relating to animals, stupid, foolish, bestial," from L. bestialis "like a beast," from bestia (see beast). Sense of "below the dignity of a human" is from c.1400, and in many cases its use is unjust to the beasts.
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