bestial Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
    brutish; brute; brutal; beastly.
    • beastly desires
    • a bestial nature
    • brute force
    • a dull and brutish man
    • bestial treatment of prisoners

WordNet

Bes"tial adjective
Etymology
F. bestial, L. bestialis, fr. bestia beast. See Beast.
Definitions
  1. Belonging to a beast, or to the class of beasts.
    Among the bestial herds to range. Milton.
  2. Having the qualities of a beast; brutal; below the dignity of reason or humanity; irrational; carnal; beastly; sensual. Shak. Syn. -- Brutish; beastly; brutal; carnal; vile; low; depraved; sensual; filthy.
Bes"tial noun
Definitions
  1. A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. Scot.

Webster 1913