bestialとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛs.ti.əl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛs.tʃəl/, /ˈbis-/

形容詞

bestial (comparative more bestial, superlative most bestial)

1. (literally and figuratively) Beast-like
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, Scene 3, [1]

     Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 753-4, [2]

     By thee adulterous lust was driven from men /

     Among the bestial herds to range […]

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, [3]

     This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.

同意語

• beastly
• animalian

上位語

• faunal

派生語

• bestiality
• bestialize
• bestialization

関連する語

• beast
• bestiary

名詞

bestial pl (複数形 only)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Cattle.
   • 1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Forfar, Kincardine (page 94)

     […] much must depend upon the way in which bestial are bought or reared, and the state of the markets when they are sold.

アナグラム

• Stabile, ableist, albites, astilbe, bastile, libates, stabile