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What is the adjective for beastliness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs beast, bestialize and bestialise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

beastly
  1. (Britain) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
  2. (Britain) Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man
  3. (Britain, dated) Abominable.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. bestial, feral, animalistic, ferine, brutal, swinish, brutish, animal, brute, subhuman, animalian, inhuman, piggish, savage, wild, undomesticated, untamed, bearish, brutelike, monstrous, unhuman, wolfish, inhumane, wicked, neanderthal, troglodytic, less than human, beastlike, theroid, theriomorphic, zoomorphic, zoic, primitive, zoological, zoologic, goatish, beast-like, nasty, disgusting, horrible, awful, foul, dreadful, repulsive, revolting, offensive, abominable, loathsome, vile, unpleasant … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Left to fend for himself in the wilderness, he would gradually take on a beastly existence.”
      “Such beastly behavior should best be hidden from the duchess's precious eyes.”
      “The weather today is downright beastly and most unsuitable for a picnic.”
beast
  1. (slang) great; excellent; powerful
beasten
  1. (obsolete) Of, relating to, or pertaining to beasts; bestial.
beastish
  1. Like a beast; brutal; beastly.
beastlike
  1. Resembling a beast or some aspect of one.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bloodthirsty, brutal, feral, fierce, savage, untamed, violent … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “There was a beastlike note in his voice that made the short hairs on Kennon's neck prickle.”
      “In the late '50s, his paintings became populated with stumpy, beastlike figures, often adorned with military medals.”
      “There came from him an indescribable reek of tobacco, whisky, filthy clothes, and the beastlike odor of an unclean body.”
bestial
  1. (literally and figuratively) Beast-like
  2. Synonyms:
      3. animalistic, animal, beastlike, beastly, theriomorphic, theroid, animalian, brute, brutish, feral, ferine, wild, zoic, zoomorphic, bearish, primitive, savage, undomesticated, untamed, zoologic, zoological, beast-like, goatish, subhuman, swinish, brutal, inhuman, wolfish, piggish, brutelike, monstrous, unhuman, inhumane, wicked, neanderthal, troglodytic, less than human, barbaric, barbarous, cruel, vicious, violent, fierce, ferocious, fiendish, sadistic, ruthless … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I cannot, therefore, believe that even the body, much less the mind, can really be changed into bestial forms and lineaments by any reason, art, or power of the demons.”
      “Uther died, as all mortal men must do in the end, cut down by a bestial warlord in another great battle to defend the realm he had created.”
      “His denial of his own capacity for bestial thoughts is unconvincing, especially when the seeds of these thoughts wax fertile within the matrix of his imagination.”
beastlier
  1. comparative form of beastly: more beastly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. more bestial, more feral, more animalistic, more ferine, more brutal, more swinish, more brutish, more brute, more subhuman, more animalian, more inhuman, more piggish, nastier, disgustinger, horribler, awfuller, fouler, viler, unpleasanter, terribler, grosser, ghastlier, yuckier, obscener, rottener, meaner, more dreadful, more repulsive, more revolting, more offensive, more abominable, more loathsome, more appalling, more disagreeable, more objectionable, more detestable, horrider, more repellent, more odious, more hideous, more horrendous, more sickening, more repugnant, more nauseating, more obnoxious, more distasteful, more abhorrent, more frightful, more nauseous, more execrable … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “While it's coming to both iOS and Android, you'll need one of either platform's beastlier offerings to be able to get this one up and running.”
      “He scanned Shaftesbury Avenue with a jaundiced eye, and thought that he had never seen a beastlier thoroughfare.”
      “And all this before she even gets to Australia where the villains are even beastlier.”
beastliest
  1. superlative form of beastly: most beastly
  2. Synonyms:
      3. most bestial, most feral, most animalistic, most ferine, most brutal, most swinish, most brutish, most brute, most subhuman, most animalian, most inhuman, most piggish, nastiest, disgustingest, horriblest, awfullest, foulest, vilest, unpleasantest, terriblest, grossest, ghastliest, yuckiest, obscenest, rottenest, meanest, most dreadful, most repulsive, most revolting, most offensive, most abominable, most loathsome, most appalling, most disagreeable, most objectionable, most detestable, most God-awful, horridest, most repellent, most odious, most hideous, most horrendous, most sickening, most repugnant, most nauseating, most obnoxious, most distasteful, most abhorrent, most frightful, most nauseous … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “And yet Mr Vann's soaring writing carries it forward a reminder of the beauty that can grace even the beastliest things.”
      “Yasuni is terra incognita, one of the beastliest, lushest, most fecund, abundant but unknown places on earth.”
      “And I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I think that squeaking bird of yours is about the beastliest thing I ever met.”
beasted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of beast
bestialized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of bestialize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. brutalised, brutalized, dehumanised, dehumanized, animalized, barbarized, imbruted, corrupted, debased, vitiated, perverted, degraded, poisoned, depraved, debauched, demeaned, subverted, abased, cheapened, deteriorated, bastardised, bastardized, profaned, defiled, lessened, polluted, sullied, tainted, contaminated, adulterated, spoiled, spoilt, devalued, fouled, blemished, stained, tarnished, besmirched, blackened, darkened, marred, soiled, vulgarised, vulgarized, dragged down, warped, demoralized, prostituted, cankered … more
bestializing
  1. present participle of bestialize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. brutalising, brutalizing, dehumanising, dehumanizing, animalizing, barbarizing, imbruting, corrupting, debasing, vitiating, perverting, degrading, poisoning, depraving, debauching, demeaning, subverting, abasing, cheapening, deteriorating, bastardising, bastardizing, profaning, defiling, lessening, polluting, sullying, tainting, contaminating, adulterating, spoiling, devaluing, fouling, blemishing, staining, tarnishing, besmirching, blackening, darkening, marring, soiling, vulgarising, vulgarizing, dragging down, warping, demoralizing, prostituting, cankering, demoralising … more
bestialised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of bestialise
bestialising
  1. present participle of bestialise
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