beast
/biːst/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.29 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
All non-human animals seen as a group.
noun
A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
noun
A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
Example Sentences
- "Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat."
- "Language is what separates man and beast."
- "[…] it always had the making of a fine beast about it, but up to the time I had it up here in a stall by itself it did not get the chance to make any headway [ie, fatten], all its mates were down on it and it never seemed to fill itself. […] A big framed beast takes a lot of food — expensive food at that [—] to keep it doing […]"
- "Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together."
- "‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’"
- "That is a beast of a stadium."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /biːst/
- British English: /biːst/
Usage
- British usage
- Slang
- Derogatory
- Transitive verb
- American usage
Inflected Forms
beasts (plural)
beest (alternative, obsolete)
beasts (present, singular)
beasting (participle, present)
beasted (participle, past)
beasted (past)
more beast (comparative)
most beast (superlative)
the Beast (canonical)
Derived Forms
Phrases
beast fable
beast-gate
beast mode
beast with two backs
beauty and the beast
belly of the beast
big beast
different beast