What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Human vs Beast - What's the difference?

human | beast |

As adjectives the difference between human and beast

is that human is of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives while beast is great; excellent; powerful.

As nouns the difference between human and beast

is that human is a human being, whether man, woman or child while beast is any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.

As verbs the difference between human and beast

is that human is to behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human while beast is to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.

As a proper noun Beast is

a figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.

human

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • (comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
  • * 2011 August 17, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., The Many Wars of Google: Handset makers will learn to live with their new ‘frenemy’]'', ''Business World'', ''[[w:The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal] ,
    • Google wouldn't be human if it didn't want some of this loot, which buying Motorola would enable it to grab.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * humane * humanitarian * humanitarianism * humanity

    Derived terms

    * human behaviour * human being * human botfly * human capital * human chattel * human chorionic gonadotropin * human-computer interaction * human condition * human death * human development * Human Genome Project * human immunodeficiency virus * human insulin * human interest * humanism * humanist * humanization * humanize * humanizer * human knot * human kind, humankind * humanly * human movement * human nature * humanoid * human papillomavirus * human pyramid * human race * human relations * human resources (HR) * human rights * human trafficking * inhuman * inhumane * nonhuman, non-human * to err is human (human)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A human being, whether man, woman or child.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , title= In the News , volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans , including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
  • * 2013 , Biosocial Becomings (ISBN 110702563X), page 19:
    • There are, then, many ways of humaning : these are the ways along which we make ourselves and, collaboratively, one another.
  • * 1911 , The collected works of Ambrose Bierce , volume 9, page 362:

    • Statistics

    *

    External links

    * * *

    Anagrams

    * (l)

    References

    ----

    beast

    English

    (wikipedia beast)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
  • (more specific)  A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
  • *
    • Boxer was an enormous beast , nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘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. […]’}}
  • A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
  • (slang) A large and impressive automobile.
  • (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
  • * 1994 , Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)
    • Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts .' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors
  • * 1994 , Adam Sampson, Acts of Abuse: Sex Offenders And the Criminal Justice System (page 83)
    • For many prisoners and in many prisons, antipathy towards 'nonces' or 'beasts' is little more than an idea
  • (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
  • * 2000 , Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon , Berkley (2001), ISBN 9780425180969, page 905:
    • Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."
  • * 2006 , Heather Burt, Adam's Peak , Dundurn Press (2006), ISBN 9781550026467, page 114:
    • He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.
  • * 2011 , :
    • And, oh, poor Atlas / The world's a beast of a burden / You've been holding up a long time

    Derived terms

    * beastly * saddle beast

    Related terms

    * bestial * bestiary

    See also

    * belluine (suppletive adjective)

    Derived terms

    * beast fable * beast of burden * beast of draft * beast of prey * beastie * beastly * beastmaster * beauty and the beast * king of beasts * lobola-beast * belly of the beast

    Related terms

    * bestial * bestiality * bestiary * * * hartebeest * wildebeest

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) great; excellent; powerful
  • * 1999 , "Jason Chue", AMD K6-2 350mhz, FIC VA503+, LGS 64mb PC100 sdram'' (on newsgroup ''jaring.pcbase )
    • There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.
  • * 2012 , Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits (page 37)
    • Translation: a piece of crap, but the rest of the car was totally beast .

    Anagrams

    *