beast´like´

beast´like´
beast «beest», noun.
1. a) any four-footed animal. Lions, bears, cows, and horses are beasts. b) any animal except man: »

Both man and beast fled before the flames of the forest fire.

SYNONYM(S): See syn. under animal. (Cf. ↑animal)
2. Figurative. a) a coarse, dirty, or brutal person; brute: »

Oh you beast, Oh faithless Coward, oh dishonest wretch (Shakespeare).

 b) a human being considered to resemble an animal in lack of self-control, etc.: »

Till Morn' sends stagg'ring Home a Drunken Beast (Sir Richard Steele).

╂[< Old French beste, learned borrowing from Latin bēstia wild beast]
–beast´like´, adjective.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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