Associations to the word «Bestial»

Wiktionary

BESTIAL, adjective. (literally and figuratively) Beast-like

Dictionary definition

BESTIAL, adjective. Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats