beastly

C2+ Topic:Animals

US /ˈbiːstli/ UK /ˈbiːstli/ See IPA manual

adj adv

Meanings

1

adj
like a beast; very unpleasant or disagreeable

It was beastly weather for an outdoor wedding.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · like a beast; very... brutish savage bestial cruel horrible disagreeable loathsome

Opposites

pleasant humane agreeable gentle

Word family

Forms beastliness

Derived forms beastliness

Related forms beast bestial

Etymology

From beast (Old French beste, from Latin bestia) plus the suffix -ly.

beste Old French bestia Latin

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Animals Word Formation & Derivatives

# beastly

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj, adv
**IPA (US):** ˈbiːstli
**IPA (UK):** ˈbiːstli

## Meanings
1. like a beast; very unpleasant or disagreeable

## Examples
- It was beastly weather for an outdoor wedding.

## Synonyms
- brutish
- savage
- bestial
- cruel
- horrible
- disagreeable
- loathsome

## Antonyms
- pleasant
- humane
- agreeable
- gentle

## Derived Forms
- beastliness

## Related Forms
- beast
- bestial

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: beste
- Root: bestia

## Etymology
From beast (Old French beste, from Latin bestia) plus the suffix -ly.

## AI Etymology
Beastly is from beast (Old French beste, from Latin bestia) plus the suffix -ly. Important recorded forms include beste (Old French) and bestia (Latin). Morphologically, the word is a built form whose named elements carry part of the historical sense. The current sense covers like a beast; very unpleasant or disagreeable. The wider family includes derived forms such as beastliness and related words such as beast and bestial.

## Topics
- Animals
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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