beastly

1. 1.

   in a beastly manner

   “she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law”

Other forms of beastly

comparative or superlative

beastlier

comparative or superlative

beastliest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about beastly

What does beastly mean?

beastly means "(informal) very unpleasant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beastly?

beastly has 2 syllables: beast-ly. The stress falls on "beast". In IPA it is /ˈbistˌli/.

What is another word for beastly?

Close synonyms include hellish, god-awful, bestial, brute, brutish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beastly a common word?

beastly is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with beastly?

42 words rhyme with beastly. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.