different between bestial vs deplorable

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English bestial, from Old French bestial, from Late Latin b?sti?lis, from Latin b?stia (“beast”) (whence English beast).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?s.ti.?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?s.t??l/, /?bis-/

Adjective

bestial (comparative more bestial, superlative most bestial)

1. (literally and figuratively) Beast-like
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act II, Scene 3, [1]

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

   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 753-4, [2]

     By thee adulterous lust was driven from men /

     Among the bestial herds to range […]

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, [3]

     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.

Synonyms

• beastly
• animalian

Hypernyms

• faunal

Derived terms

• bestiality
• bestialize
• bestialization

Related terms

• beast
• bestiary

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle Scots bestiall, from Middle English bestaile, from Old French bestaille, from Late Latin b?sti?lia; later reinforced and remodelled on Middle French bestial, itself from Late Latin b?sti?lis.

Noun

bestial pl (plural only)

2. (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.

Anagrams

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin b?sti?lis, from Latin b?stia (“beast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?s.tjal/
• Homophones: bestiale, bestiales

Adjective

bestial (feminine singular bestiale, masculine plural bestiaux, feminine plural bestiales)

1. bestial

Related terms

• bête

Further reading

• “bestial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• baliste, établis

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin b?sti?lis, from Latin b?stia (“beast”).

Adjective

bestial m or f (plural bestiais)

1. beastly
2. massive, huge, giant
3. tremendous, fantastic, awesome

Related terms

• bestia
• bestialidade

Middle English

Alternative forms

• beestial, beestyal, bestiall, bestialle, bestyal, bestyall

Etymology

From Old French bestial, from Late Latin b?sti?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?sti?a?l/, /?b?stial/, /?b??stial/

Adjective

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

Synonyms

• beestly (all senses)

Descendants

• English: bestial

References

• “b??sti??l(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Etymology

First known attestation circa 1190, borrowed from Latin b?sti?lis.

Adjective

bestial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bestiale)

1. bestial (of or relating to a beast)

Related terms

• beste

Descendants

• English: bestial
• French: bestial

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin b?sti?lis, from Latin b?stia (“beast”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /b???tja?/
• Hyphenation: bes?ti?al

Adjective

bestial m or f (plural bestiais, comparable)

1. bestial; brutish
2. beastly

Related terms

• besta
• bestalidade

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bestial, Late Latin b?sti?lis, from Latin b?stia (“beast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bes.ti?al]

Adjective

bestial m or n (feminine singular bestial?, masculine plural bestiali, feminine and neuter plural bestiale)

1. bestial, animal
2. (informal) cool

Usage notes

As indicated by the informal meaning of "cool", this word does not have the same negative connotations as in English.

Declension

Synonyms

• animalic
• feroce
• fioros
• s?lbatic

Related terms

• bestialitate
• bestie

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin b?sti?lis, from Latin b?stia (“beast”).

Adjective

bestial (plural bestiales)

1. beastly
2. massive, huge, giant
3. tremendous, fantastic, awesome

Related terms

• bestia
• bestialidad

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French déplorable, from Late Latin d?pl?r?bilis., from d?- +? pl?r? +? -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??pl????b??/

Adjective

deplorable (comparative more deplorable, superlative most deplorable)

1. Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.
2. To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe

     There was a youth and his mother, and a maidservant on board, who were going passengers, and thinking the ship was ready to sail, unhappily came on board the evening before the hurricane began; and having no provisions of their own left, they were in a more deplorable condition than the rest.

   • 1840, Public Documents of the State of Maine, "Report Relating to the Insane Hospital", Committee on Public Buildings

     If, however, the early symptoms of insanity be neglected till the brain becomes accustomed to the irregular actions of disease, or till organic changes take place from the early violence of those actions, then the case becomes hopeless of cure. In this situation, in too many cases, the victim of this deplorable malady is cast off by his friends, thrust into a dungeon or in chains, there to remain till the shattered intellect shall exhaust all its remaining energies in perpetual raving and violence, till it sinks into hopeless and deplorable idiocy.

Synonyms

• pathetic

Translations

Noun

deplorable (plural deplorables)

1. A person or thing that is to be deplored.
   • 1970, Esquire (volume 74)

     […] heralding, this season, an end of the most awful of all apparel abominations, that most despicable of all deplorables, the ankle sock.

2. (neologism, US politics) A Trumpist conservative, in reference to a 2016 speech by Hillary Clinton calling half of Donald Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables".

Further reading

• deplorable at OneLook Dictionary Search
• deplorable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Middle French

Etymology

Late 15th century, borrowed from Latin d?pl?r?bilis.

Adjective

deplorable m or f (plural deplorables)

1. deplorable (worthy of compassion)

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin d?pl?r?bilis, equivalent to deplorar +? -able.

Adjective

deplorable (plural deplorables)

1. deplorable