Bestial vs Awful - What's the difference?
bestial | awful | Related terms |
Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
*, I.56:
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.143:
Struck or filled with awe.
(obsolete) Terror-stricken.
Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
Very bad.
(colloquial) Very, extremely; as, an awful big house.
Bestial is a related term of awful.
As adjectives the difference between bestial and awful
is that bestial is beast-like while awful is oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.As an adverb awful is
(colloquial) very, extremely; as, an awful big house.bestial
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Synonyms
* beastly * animalianDerived terms
* bestialize * bestializationHypernyms
* faunalAnagrams
* ----awful
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Alternative forms
* awfull (archaic)Adjective
(en-adj)- God ought not to be commixed in our actions, but with awful reverence, and an attention full of honour and respect.
- And then she stopped, and stood as if in awe / (For sleep is awful ).
- an awful bonnet
- I have learnt an awful amount today.
- My socks smell awful .