animalistically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
7
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an animalistic way; bestially; in the manner of an animal.
Example Sentences
- "[...] “and in general wantonly pursues pleasure in an animal fashion in all of his sexual activities,” or it means, “he pursues pleasure animalistically with women, begetting children, and also animalistically with men, having sex for pleasure only,” [...]"
- "[...] of a dehumanizing bestiality comes in the off-hand aside that types the Kalahari Bushman as an animalistically undisciplined alien [which] speaks for an emotively entrenched scale of prejudice defined around the stigma of subhumanness."
- "She'd been exhausted and drunk even before the call. Then three hours and a magnum later, out in the cold, her melting brain had animalistically forced her to stay conscious so she wouldn't fall over and die in the snow."
Etymology
From animalistic + -ally.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more animalistically (comparative)
most animalistically (superlative)