单词 | beastly |
释义 | beastly1 of 2adjective beast·ly ˈbēst-lē beastlier; beastliest 1 a : relating to, characteristic of, or resembling an animal : bestial sense 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 Yet this beastly little man was capable of exquisite humor and tenderness. Edmund Morris 2 informal : extremely unpleasant, disagreeable, or undesirable beastly weather It took him ages to get the beastly stuff out of his eyes and eyebrows, and as for his beard, he had to cut most of it off. J. R. R. Tolkien At the beastly hour of 9:40 a.m. we trudged up to our nosebleed seats, wobbling like prizefighters in the final round, for the NFL preseason game between the Chargers and the Denver Broncos … Gary Smith 3 : monstrously large or powerful … the staging area was packed with an eclectic mix of vehicles, from humble hatchbacks to beastly trucks. Lisa Rose Workers with acetylene torches and a beastly contraption called the "dinosaur" are chewing quickly through the rusting old railroad tunnel … Tim O'Neill beastliness noun beastly 2 of 2adverb chiefly British, informal : to an extreme and usually unpleasant degree "It's no good pretending it isn't an awkward situation," continued Bob, "because it is. Beastly awkward." P. G. Wodehouse : in an unpleasant or beastly manner … an ideological predisposition to believe the Soviet Union will embrace comity if only Washington doesn't act beastly. Woody West beastly 1 of 2 adjectiveas in brute having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal left to shift for himself on an isolated farm, he gradually sank into a beastly, purposeless existence Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
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beastly 2 of 2adverbas in extremely to a great degree it's beastly hot today Synonyms & Similar Words
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