beastful

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic) beastfull

Etymology

From beast +‎ -ful.

Adjective

beastful (comparative more beastful, superlative most beastful)

1. (rare) Having the nature of a wild beast; beastly.
   • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 566:

     I fear lest we have lost ours (non grant it!) respecting these wildy parts. How is hit finister! How shagsome all and beastful!

   • 1981, Adrian Cole, Wargods of Ludorbis, London: Robert Hale, →ISBN, page 55:

     My spies inform me that the Lemuli of the south are little better than the Vandi, who are no real match for us. So this Sun Lord and his beastful empire—he will be a good test for us.

   • 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149:

     You were dealing with a person who was an 85 percenter: dumb, deaf, and blind. A slave to mental deafness and power, who did not know himself, did not know who he was, didn't have any teachings, and was ignorant to himself. Who was locked in mental bondage, stripped of his own language and identity. He did not know that, so that's why he was living a beastful way of life.

Derived terms

• beastfully
• beastfulness