bestialとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɛs.ti.əl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈbɛs.t͡ʃəl/, /ˈbis.t͡ʃəl/

形容詞

bestial (comparative more bestial, superlative most bestial)

1. (literally and figuratively) Beast-like
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

     Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 753-4:

     By thee adulterous lust was driven from men /
     Among the bestial herds to range […]

   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

     This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.

   • 1900 April, Willa Cather, “Eric Hermannson's Soul”, in Cosmopolitan:

     His was a bestial face, a face that bore the stamp of Nature's eternal injustice.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 177:

     Ah, if the invincible forest god of that dead past were but with them now. No longer would there be aught to fear from prowling beasts, or from the bestial Russian.

   • 2022 December 31, Matteo Wong, “Hollywood’s Love Affair With Fictional Languages”, in The Atlantic:

     The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.

同意語

• beastly
• animalian

上位語

• faunal

派生語

関連する語

• beast
• bestiary

語源 2

From Middle Scots bestiall, from 中期英語 bestaile, from Old French bestaille, from Late Latin bēstiālia; later reinforced and remodelled on Middle French bestial, itself from Late Latin bēstiālis.

名詞

bestial pl (plural only)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) Cattle.
   • 1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Forfar, Kincardine, page 94:

     […] much must depend upon the way in which bestial are bought or reared, and the state of the markets when they are sold.

アナグラム

• Stabile, ableist, albites, astilbe, bastile, libates, stabile

語源

From Old French bestial, from Late Latin bēstiālis.

発音

• IPA: /bɛstiˈaːl/, /ˈbɛstial/, /ˈbɛːstial/

形容詞

bestial

1. animal (of or pertaining to animals)
2. physical; non-spiritual (of faculties, knowledge, etc.)
3. beastly, depraved (lacking human sensibility)
4. stupid, unlearned

同意語

• beestly (all senses)

派生語

• bestially

派生した語

• English: bestial

参照

• “bē̆stiā̆l(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.