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- Dictionarybeastly/ˈbiːs(t)li/
adjective
- 1. very unpleasant: informal British "this beastly war"
- 2. cruel and unrestrained: archaic "beastly immorality"
adverb
- 1. to an extreme and unpleasant degree: informal, dated British "a beastly dull wedding party"
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unkind or unpleasant: Why are you being so beastly to me? We've had beastly weather all summer. Synonyms. bestial formal disapproving. brutish. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Unkind, cruel & unfeeling. acerbically. acerbity. acidly. anti-cruelty. cruelly. cruelty to someone/something. cutthroat. meanness. mental cruelty. mercilessly.
: relating to, characteristic of, or resembling an animal : bestialsense 1. beastly strength. Their languages, with complex clicks, were once dismissed as a guttural farrago of beastly sounds.—Stephen Jay Gould. b. : characterized by cruelty, brutality, or crudeness.
1. adjective. If you describe something as beastly, you mean that it is very unpleasant. [informal, old-fashioned] The weather was beastly. Synonyms: unpleasant, mean, terrible [informal], awful More Synonyms of beastly. 2. adjective. If you describe someone as beastly, you mean that they are behaving unkindly. [informal, old-fashioned]
Beastly definition: of or like a beast; bestial.. See examples of BEASTLY used in a sentence.
Define beastly. beastly synonyms, beastly pronunciation, beastly translation, English dictionary definition of beastly. adj. beast·li·er , beast·li·est 1. Of or resembling a beast; bestial. 2. Very disagreeable; unpleasant. adv. Chiefly British To an extreme degree; very....
Definition of beastly adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
unkind or unpleasant: Why are you being so beastly to me? We've had beastly weather all summer. Synonyms. bestial formal disapproving. brutish. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Unkind, cruel & unfeeling. acerbically. acerbity. acidly. anti-cruelty. cruelly. cruelty to someone/something. cutthroat. meanness. mental cruelty. mercilessly.