Adjective: beastly (beastlier,beastliest) beest-lee
- [informal] Very unpleasant, difficult, or awful
"beastly weather";
- hellish [informal], god-awful [informal], horrible [informal], hellacious [N. Amer, informal]
- Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
"beastly desires";
- bestial, brute, brutish, brutal
- In a beastly manner
"she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law"
Derived forms: beastlier, beastliest
See also: inhumane, unpleasant
Encyclopedia: Beastly