bestial

Questions about bestial

What does bestial mean?

bestial means "resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility".

How many syllables are in bestial?

bestial has 2 syllables: bes-tial. The stress falls on "bes". In IPA it is /ˈbɛstʃəl/.

What is another word for bestial?

Close synonyms include beastly, brute, brutish, brutal. 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 bestial a common word?

bestial is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.