beastnoun [ C ]
uk/biːst/us/biːst/formal an animal, especially a large or wild one:
a wild beast
The room wasn't fit for man or beast.
old-fashioned an unpleasant, annoying, or cruel person:
He was a beast to her throughout their marriage.
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General & informal words for animals
- arthropod
- beastie
- brute
- bug
- creepy-crawly
- critter
- domestic animal
- invertebrate
- man-eater
- pest
- pet
- predator
- prey
- stray
- thing
- vermin
- vertebrata
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Unpleasant people in general
Idiom(s)
beast of burden