BEASTLINESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does beastliness mean? • BEASTLINESS (noun)
The noun BEASTLINESS has 2 senses:
1. the quality of being deliberately mean
2. unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather
Familiarity information: BEASTLINESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BEASTLINESS (noun)
Meaning:
The quality of being deliberately mean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
beastliness; meanness
Hypernyms ("beastliness" is a kind of...):
malevolence; malevolency; malice (the quality of threatening evil)
Meaning:
Unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("beastliness" is a kind of...):
nastiness (the quality of being unpleasant)
Domain region:
Britain; GB; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland)
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