bestial

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈbɛs.ti.əl/
See all 3 pronunciations
/ˈbɛs.ti.əl/ · /ˈbɛs.t͡ʃəl/ · /ˈbis.t͡ʃəl/

Definition of bestial

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (figuratively, literally)Beast-like.
    “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”
    “By thee adulterous lust was driven from men / Among the bestial herds to range […]”
    “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.”
    “His was a bestial face, a face that bore the stamp of Nature's eternal injustice.”
    “Ah, if the invincible forest god of that dead past were but with them now. No longer would there be aught to fear from prowling beasts, or from the bestial Russian.”
See all 2 definitions

adj

  1. (figuratively, literally)Beast-like.
    “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”
    “By thee adulterous lust was driven from men / Among the bestial herds to range […]”
    “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.”
    “His was a bestial face, a face that bore the stamp of Nature's eternal injustice.”
    “Ah, if the invincible forest god of that dead past were but with them now. No longer would there be aught to fear from prowling beasts, or from the bestial Russian.”

noun

  1. (Scotland, obsolete, plural, plural-only)Cattle.
    “[…] much must depend upon the way in which bestial are bought or reared, and the state of the markets when they are sold.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

Words you can make from bestial

200+ playable · top: ABLEIST (9 pts)

Best play ableist 9 points

7-letter words

5 words

6-letter words

11 words

5-letter words

47 words

4-letter words

84 words

3-letter words

52 words

Find your best play with bestial

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes bestial, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.