beastly

adj

/ˈbiːstli/

Etymology

From Middle English bestely, bestly, equivalent to beast + -ly. Compare West Frisian bistachtich (“beastly”), Dutch beestachtig (“beastly”), German biestig (“beastly”).

inherited from bestely

Definitions

Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
2
Similar to the nature of a beast
Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of human beings.
- beastly culture
3
Abominable
Abominable; very unpleasant; hideous.
- beastly weather
- Stop being so beastly to her!
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1. 4
  Of computer hardware or motor vehicles etc.
  Of computer hardware or motor vehicles etc.: ostentatiously powerful.
  - In addition to a Core i7-860 with a full-sized heatsink and 4GB of DDR3 RAM, the company showed its SUGO SG07 housing today's most beastly graphics card, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970, which is about 30cm long.
  - A very big, very black, and very beastly Hummer H2, Spotted in China in in the rain the great city of Zigong in Sichuan Province.
  - Huawei’s Mate 20 phones have instantly become the best iPhone XS rivals out there, at least on paper, and the high-end model is easily the most beastly Android phone the world has seen so far.
2. 5
  Like a beast
  Like a beast; brutishly.
  - Beastly he threwe her downe, ne car'd to spill / Her garments gay with scales of fish that all did fill.
  - They have insulted me most beastly. Moreover, they are, everyone of them, black-satan filthmen.
3. 6
  Very much
  Very much; terribly.
  - "I'm beastly sorry, Wynn, old man," he muttered. "I ought to have remembered."

The neighborhood

neighbornature of the beast

Derived

beasterly, beastlihead, beastlihood, beastlily, beastliness, beastly careless, beastlyhead

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beastly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA