2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beastly \Beast"ly\, a.
1. Pertaining to or having the form nature, or habits of a
beast.
Beastly divinities and droves of gods. --Prior.
2. Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the
nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
The beastly vice of drinking to excess. --Swift.
3. Abominable; as beastly weather. [Colloq. Eng.]
Syn: Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
beastly
adj 1: very unpleasant; "hellish (or beastly) weather" [syn: {hellish}]
2: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a
dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
[syn: {bestial}, {brute(a)}, {brutish}]
adv : in a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her
mother-in-law"
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