different between bestial vs irrational

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

From Latin irrati?n?lis, from ir- + rati?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?r?'sh(?)n?l, IPA^(key): /???æ?.(?.)n?l/

Adjective

irrational (comparative more irrational, superlative most irrational)

1. Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.
   • July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]

     Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.

2. (mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.

   Antonym: rational

   Hyponym: transcendental

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

irrational (plural irrationals)

1. A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.24:

     The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.

Translations

German

Alternative forms

• irrationell

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???at?si?ona?l/, /??at?si?o?na?l/

Adjective

irrational (comparative irrationaler, superlative am irrationalsten)

1. irrational

Declension