Synonyms for Beast
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1. beast

   An animal is a sentient being, distinct from inanimate matter and from vegetable life on the one side and from mental and spiritual existence on the other. Thus man is properly classified as an animal. But because the animal life is the lowest and rudest part of his being and that which he shares with inferior creatures, to call any individual man an animal is to imply that the animal nature has undue supremacy, and so is deep condemnation or utter insult. The brute is the animal viewed as dull to all finer feeling; the beast is looked upon as a being of appetites. To call a man a brute is to imply that he is unfeeling and cruel; to call him a beast is to indicate that he is vilely sensual. We speak of the cruel father as a brute to his children; of the drunkard as making a beast of himself. So firmly are these figurative senses established that we now incline to avoid applying brute or beast to any creature, as a horse or dog, for which we have any affection; we prefer in such cases the word animal. Creature is a word of wide signification, including all the things that God has created, whether inanimate objects, plants, animals, angels, or men. The animals of a region are collectively called its fauna.

   Synonyms:
   animal, brute, fauna, living creature, living organism, sentient being

   Antonyms:
   angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material), vegetable

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1. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, faunanoun

   a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

   Synonyms:
   zoology, puppet, fauna, tool, animal, animate being, wight, wildcat, brute, beast, wolf, creature, savage

2. beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcatnoun

   a cruelly rapacious person

   Synonyms:
   wildcat well, masher, skirt chaser, fauna, animal, animate being, beast, wildcat, brute, woman chaser, wolf, barbarian, creature, savage

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   im the goat a b-ball.

   Submitted by anonymous on January 21, 2020  

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1. beastnoun

   Synonyms:
   BRUTE, quadruped, beast of the field, four-footed animal, irrational animal

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1. beastnoun

   Synonyms:
   brute, quadruped, monster, brute

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1. List of paraphrases for "beast":

   silly, stupid, dumb, monster, animal, foxsnake, creature, fool, freak

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1. W.S. Gilbert:

   No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.

2. Awakening Beaconing:

   Chameleon on being crowned shamelessly said that he would jointly work with those animals, whom he used to say beast and rebuke earlier, for the peace and progress of the jungle.

3. Janice Dean:

   A perfect beast of a storm.

4. Donald McNeil:

   In January, I was told that my articles and appearanceson The Daily would be a prominent part of this submission. In February, in a moment of panic, The Times pressured me to resign over false accusations that I was a racist, since they had ordered me to not respond in detail to the Daily Beast's accusations, I was unable to explain why theywere false (until after I departedon March 1.).

5. Andrea Dworkin:

   The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.