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Beastly vs Wallow - What's the difference?

beastly | wallow |

As adjectives the difference between beastly and wallow

is that beastly is pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of a beast while wallow is tasteless, flat.

As a adverb beastly

is like a beast; brutishly.

As a verb wallow is

to roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.

As a noun wallow is

an instance of wallowing.

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.

    wallow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * waller (eye dialect)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) wealwian, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To roll oneself about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
    • Pigs wallow in the mud.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I may wallow in the lily beds.
  • To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
    • She wallowed in her misery.
  • * The Simpsons (TV series)
    • With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.
  • To roll; especially, to roll in anything defiling or unclean, as a hog might do to dust its body to relieve the distress of insect biting or cool its body with mud.
  • To live in filth or gross vice; to behave in a beastly and unworthy manner.
  • * South
    • God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
  • (intransitive, UK, Scotland, dialect) To wither; to fade.
    • Usage notes
    In the sense of “to immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with”, it is almost exclusively used for self-indulgent negative emotions, particularly self-pity. See synonyms for general or positive alternatives, such as (revel).
    Synonyms
    * (to immerse oneself in) bask, delight, indulge, luxuriate, revel, rollick

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of wallowing.
  • A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.
  • A kind of rolling walk.

    • Etymology 2

    (From inflected forms of) (etyl) . Compare (waugh).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tasteless, flat.