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As the science of every thing is in the formed Word, so also is God's will therein: That same expressed Word is in the angels, angelical; in the devils, diabolical; in man, human; in beasts, bestial.
Jakob Bohme

Meaning of "bestial" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BESTIAL

From Late Latin bestiālis, from Latin bestiabeast.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BESTIAL

bestial  [ˈbɛstɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BESTIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bestial is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BESTIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bestial (album)

Bestial is a 1982 music album by the Spanish group Barrabás. It was the band's eighth and penultimate album, and the last to feature several members including long-time vocalist José Luís Tejada.

Definition of bestial in the English dictionary

The first definition of bestial in the dictionary is brutal or savage. Other definition of bestial is sexually depraved; carnal. Bestial is also lacking in refinement; brutish.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BESTIAL


agrestial
əˈɡrɛstɪəl
bracteal
ˈbræktɪəl
celestial
sɪˈlɛstɪəl
consortial
kənˈsɔːtɪəl
endosteal
endˈɒstɪəl
forestal
fəˈrɛstɪəl
foresteal
fəˈrɛstɪəl
forestial
fəˈrɛstɪəl
lacteal
ˈlæktɪəl
luteal
ˈluːtɪəl
osteal
ˈɒstɪəl
ostial
ˈɒstɪəl
periosteal
ˌperɪˈɒstɪəl
pluteal
ˈpluːtɪəl
popliteal
pɒpˈlɪtɪəl
retial
ˈriːtɪəl
sclerotial
sklɪəˈrəʊtɪəl
subcelestial
ˌsʌbsɪˈlɛstɪəl
supercelestial
ˌsuːpərsɪˈlɛstɪəl
syncytial
sɪnˈsɪtɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BESTIAL

best-before date
best-of-breed
bestain
bestar
bestead
besti
bestialise
bestialism
bestialities
bestiality
bestialize
bestially
bestiaries
bestiary
bestick
bestie
bestill
bestir
bestirred
bestirring

WORDS THAT END LIKE BESTIAL

confidential
consequential
differential
essential
existential
experiential
exponential
geospatial
influential
initial
martial
partial
potential
preferential
presidential
prudential
residential
sequential
spatial
substantial

Synonyms and antonyms of bestial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BESTIAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bestial» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of bestial

Translation of «bestial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BESTIAL

Find out the translation of bestial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bestial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bestial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

兽性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bestial
570 millions of speakers

English

bestial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वहशी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وحشي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

звериная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bestial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাশব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bestial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bestial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tierisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

野蛮な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

짐승
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bestial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc về cầm thú
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விலங்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उत्तम दर्जाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hayvani
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bestiale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bestialski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

звіряча
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bestial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κτηνώδης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onbeskofte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bestialisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bestialsk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bestial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BESTIAL»

The term «bestial» is quite widely used and occupies the 43.576 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BESTIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «bestial» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «bestial» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bestial

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4 QUOTES WITH «BESTIAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bestial.
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Jakob Bohme
As the science of every thing is in the formed Word, so also is God's will therein: That same expressed Word is in the angels, angelical; in the devils, diabolical; in man, human; in beasts, bestial.
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Eldridge Cleaver
What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
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Robert Trout
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
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Ida B. Wells
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BESTIAL»

Discover the use of bestial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bestial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
Drawing on the "gruesome, awesome, compelling reporting" (Ann Rule) that is his trademark, Harold Schechter takes a dark journey into the mind of an unrepentant sadist -- and brilliantly lays bare the myth of innocence that shrouded a ...
Harold Schechter, 2008
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Bestial
BENEATH THE DIM LIGHT OF A FULL MOON, MADNESS REIGNS.
William D. Carl, 2011
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Bestial Traces:Race, Sexuality, Animality: Race, Sexuality, ...
Focusing on literary texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Chandler Harris, Richard Wright, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee, together with philosophical texts by Derrida, Heidegger, Agamben, Freud, and Nietzsche, Peterson maintains that the ...
Christopher Peterson, 2013
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Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader
A collection of stories from the literary magazine features works by such authors as Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Amy Hempel, David Leavitt, Jonathan Letherm, David Foster Wallace, and Chris Offutt.
Tin House, Rob Spillman, 2003
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Bestial
Were there ever enough? This gut-wrenching follow-up to Ravenous by Grand Master of Horror Ray Garton will have you too scared to turn the page . . . or too scared to stop, if only to seek refuge in its shocking end.
Ray Garton, 2014
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Dante: The Poetics of Conversion
9. Bestial. Sign. and. Bread. of. Angels: Inferno. XXXII. and. XXXIII. J. HE EPISODE OF CONTE UGOLINO, virtually the last in the Inferno, has been considered through the centuries as one of the most moving accounts of human suffering and, ...
John Freccero, Rachel Jacoff, 1986
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The Monstrous Middle Ages
Its central black chasm is packed with the sprawling bodies of naked sinners; mouths open in silent anguish as they suffer a double torment - torture by hybrid demons with an array of bestial features, and consumption within the immense ...
Bettina Bildhauer, Robert Mills, 2003
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Bestial Acts: Short Story
This tale forms part of Claude Lalumière’s “cerebral, erotic, and hypnotically compelling” (Publishers Weekly) novella in stories, The Door to Lost Pages.
Claude Lalumiere, 2013
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La Blue Girl - the Original Manga 6: Bestial Beauty
A Sexual Rival!
Toshio Maeda, 2004
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The Paradoxical Ascent to God: The Kabbalistic Theosophy of ...
And all these aspects of the divine soul, the manifestation of all its aspects, is through its being garbed in the bestial soul. However, in the divine soul, in its substance and essence, they are included in one power, for its root and foundation are ...
Rachel Elior, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BESTIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bestial is used in the context of the following news items.
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Heathen is a New Open World Action Game Based on the Book, The …
Most degenerate very quickly, and fall in bestial madness. This is where your story begins: you are one of those “beasts”. Your task will be long ... «Only Single Player, Jul 15»
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In Lust We Trust
Their way threatens mankind with extinction since the reach isn't for procreation but for bestial and unproductive pleasure. Obama and the US ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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worldstarhiphop, wshh – Black America's Hypocrisy over the N-word …
Thus, when the person accepts the label they are accepting the total descriptive thing (sub-human, 3/5 a person, bestial savage beast), and ... «ThyBlackMan, Jul 15»
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Roberto Saviano interview: 'Gomorrah' author on how writing a …
As a journalist, he has showed extraordinary defiance and courage in speaking out about some of the more bestial of his fellow Neapolitans. «The Independent, Jul 15»
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Avery Taylor And Shayne Lund: Horror Couple's Child Sex Abuse …
She also confessed to engaging in bestial sex acts with her own family's dog. Avery Taylor has also pleaded guilty to 11 charges including ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
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The North Is Not Nigeria's Problem - Coomassie
... the terrorists again moved on to Kukawa town, 179km away from Maiduguri, where they carried out another bestial slaughter on Wednesday ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Kyrgyz Politics and the Killing of a Mob Boss in Belarus
“Who else do the Bakievs have to kill before Belarusian authorities will at last see the bestial and cannibalistic nature of this criminal family? «The Diplomat, Jul 15»
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Obama and the Logic of Massacre, From Birmingham to Charleston
The mass murder of four innocent girls and injuring of 20 others seemed even too bestial for grotesque white Birmingham society. An economic ... «Truth-Out, Jul 15»
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Hrothgar, Ulfrekr and Arn tool up for a friendly Viking death match
Then someone else unleashes a bestial roar, and it's back to the fighting. “It's escapism for us more than anything,” Josh says. “Some people ... «Plymouth Herald, Jul 15»
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Trial of Auschwitz guard continues in Germany
... Poland and France, were forced to work for the German weapons industry in bestial conditions. Between 1943 and 1945, a third of the more ... «World Socialist Web Site, Jul 15»

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