beastly
adjective
- characterized by base/depraved behavior, or by unrestrained indulgence of physical/sensual desires/appetites
adverb
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Pronunciation: /ˈbiːstli/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English bestely, bestly, equivalent to beast + -ly. Compare West Frisian bistachtich (“beastly”), Dutch beestachtig (“beastly”), German biestig (“beastly”).
- Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
- Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of human beings.
“beastly culture”
- Abominable; very unpleasant; hideous.
“beastly weather”
“Stop being so beastly to her!”
- 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.”
adv
Etymology: From Middle English bestely, bestly, equivalent to beast + -ly. Compare West Frisian bistachtich (“beastly”), Dutch beestachtig (“beastly”), German biestig (“beastly”).
- 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.”
- Very much; terribly.
“"I'm beastly sorry, Wynn, old man," he muttered. "I ought to have remembered."”
“The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in the shower you had so carefully blended.”