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Feastly vs Beastly - What's the difference?

feastly | beastly |

As adjectives the difference between feastly and beastly

is that feastly is wont to or fond of festive occasions while beastly is (uk) pertaining to, or having the form, nature or habits of, a beast.

As an adverb beastly is

like a beast; brutishly.

feastly

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Wont to or fond of festive occasions.
  • * 2003 , Institute for Central European Studies (Universitatea "Babe?-Bolyai"), Colloquia: journal of Central European history :
    • Royal entrances not only provide for feast and, implicitly, collective feastly behaviour but they themselves are feasts equivalent with the ordinary feasts on the agenda of a particular place.
  • Of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.
  • * 1994 , University of British Columbia. Dept. of Creative Writing, Prism international :
    • So my old man, he says Lord thank you for this feastly grub that the relatives worked so hard for [...]

    beastly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (UK) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature or habits of, a beast.
  • (UK) Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.
  • (UK, dated) Abominable.
    • beastly weather

    Usage notes

    Most often used pejoratively. is more narrow, though also often used pejoratively.

    Synonyms

    * (like a beast) bestial, animalian

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Like a beast; brutishly.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.8:
    • Beastly he threwe her downe, ne car'd to spill / Her garments gay with scales of fish that all did fill.
  • * 1901 , The Literary World - Volume 63 - Page 35:
    • They have insulted me most beastly . Moreover, they are, everyone of them, black-satan filthmen.