English Explanatory Dictionary

animalistic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. In the manner of and/or resembling an animal.
  2. In the behaviour of an animal savage; untamed.
  3. Of or pertaining to animalism.

Word forms

animalistic more animalistic most animalistic

Etymology

From animal + -istic.

Synonyms

animalesque animalian animal-like animalish animalistic beastly bestial brutish feral tameless barbarian barbaric barbarious barbarous brutal Gothic Gothlike grim heathen heathenish heathenly heathenous incivil pagan savage tenebrose truculent uncivil uncivilized uncouth uncultivated uncultured uplandish wolfish ferine indomite untame untamed wild

Derived words

animalistically
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