| Main Entry: | beastly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | savage; vulgar |
Synonyms: |
abominable, animal, barbarous, base, bestial, boorish, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, cruel, degraded, depraved, disgusting, feral, ferine, foul, gluttonous, gross, inhuman, irrational, loathsome, low, monstrous, obscene, piggish, prurient, repulsive, sadistic, swinish, unclean, vile |
Antonyms: |
good, kind, nice, superior |
| Main Entry: | beastly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | offensive |
Synonyms: |
awful, disagreeable, disgusting, foul, gross, mean, nasty, revolting, rotten, terrible, unpleasant, vile |
Antonyms: |
good, inoffensive, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | abominable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awful, detestable |
Synonyms: |
abhorrent, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, contemptible, cursed, despicable, disgusting, foul, grim, grody, gross*, hairy*, hateful, heinous, hellish, horrible, horrid, loathsome, lousy, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, offensive, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sleazy*, stinking, terrible, vile, wretched |
Antonyms: |
alluring, appealing, delightful, desirable, enjoyable, likeable, lovable, pleasant, sweet, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | animal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beastlike; carnal |
Synonyms: |
beastly, bestial, bodily, brute, brutish, corporeal, earthly, earthy, feral, fleshy, mammalian, muscular, natural, physical, sensual, untamed, wild, zoological |
| Main Entry: | atrocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outrageous; widely condemned |
Synonyms: |
awful, bad, barbaric, beastly, desperate, diabolical, fiendish, flagrant, godawful, grody, gross*, hairy*, heinous, lousy, monstrous, nefarious, rotten, scandalous, shocking, villainous, wicked |
| Main Entry: | atrocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive |
Synonyms: |
appalling, awful, bad, beastly, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, execrable, foul, godawful, grody, gross*, horrible, horrid, horrifying, icky, loathsome, noisome, obscene, repulsive, rotten, sickening, terrible |
Antonyms: |
inoffensive |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor quality |
Synonyms: |
abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news, beastly, blah*, bottom out, bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, godawful, grody, gross*, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy*, not good, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, unacceptable, unsatisfactory |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
Antonyms: |
good, honest, reputable, right, upright, virtuous, worthy |
| Main Entry: | brutal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, rough |
Synonyms: |
animal, bearish, beastly, bestial, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, feral, ferine, inhuman, inhumane, rude, savage, swinish, unfeeling |
Antonyms: |
gentle, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | brute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very strong; animal-like |
Synonyms: |
animal, beastly, bestial, bodily, carnal, feral, ferine, fleshly, instinctive, mindless, physical, senseless, swinish, unthinking |
Antonyms: |
gentle, mild, weak |
| Main Entry: | despicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful; beyond contempt |
Synonyms: |
abject, awful, base, beastly, cheap, contemptible, degrading, detestable, dirty, disgraceful, disreputable, down, ignominious, infamous, insignificant, loathsome, low, low-life, mean, no-good, pitiful, reprehensible, shameful, slimy*, sordid, vile, worthless, wretched |
Antonyms: |
desirous, honorable, likeable, loveable, respectable, virtuous, worthy |