Beast Synonyms & Antonyms | Synonyms.com (2025)

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.4 / 7 votes

1. beast

   An animal is a sentient being, distinct from inanimate matter and from vegetable life on the one side and from mental and spiritual existence on the other. Thus man is properly classified as an animal. But because the animal life is the lowest and rudest part of his being and that which he shares with inferior creatures, to call any individual man an animal is to imply that the animal nature has undue supremacy, and so is deep condemnation or utter insult. The brute is the animal viewed as dull to all finer feeling; the beast is looked upon as a being of appetites. To call a man a brute is to imply that he is unfeeling and cruel; to call him a beast is to indicate that he is vilely sensual. We speak of the cruel father as a brute to his children; of the drunkard as making a beast of himself. So firmly are these figurative senses established that we now incline to avoid applying brute or beast to any creature, as a horse or dog, for which we have any affection; we prefer in such cases the word animal. Creature is a word of wide signification, including all the things that God has created, whether inanimate objects, plants, animals, angels, or men. The animals of a region are collectively called its fauna.

   Synonyms:
   animal, brute, fauna, living creature, living organism, sentient being

   Antonyms:
   angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material), vegetable

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, faunanoun

   a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

   Synonyms:
   zoology, puppet, fauna, tool, animal, animate being, wight, wildcat, brute, wolf, creature, savage

2. beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcatnoun

   a cruelly rapacious person

   Synonyms:
   wildcat well, masher, skirt chaser, fauna, animal, animate being, wildcat, brute, woman chaser, wolf, barbarian, creature, savage

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 5 votes

1. beastnoun

   Synonyms:
   BRUTE, quadruped, beast of the field, four-footed animal, irrational animal

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1. beastnoun

   Synonyms:
   brute, quadruped, monster, brute

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1. List of paraphrases for "beast":

   silly, stupid, dumb, monster, animal, foxsnake, creature, fool, freak

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How to use beast in a sentence?

1. Nicole Kidman:

   It melts my heart … they are generous and they are empathetic. I love that about them. They went to see ‘ Beauty and the Beast, ’ and they had tears rolling down their faces because they care about the beast, they have those kind eyes. When you talk about beauty, I always look deep into people’s eyes. That’s where you see the real person.

2. Kristen Ashley Roth:

   Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

3. Aristotle:

   He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

4. Dan Gainor:

   Since The Daily Beast says it values ‘an inclusive culture, committed to the public good,’ I assume this is the last time Ira Madison III will be writing for them, it goes to a larger point. Liberals get away with personal attacks that would ruin the careers of people on the right. This is demented, but watch how little attention it gets from the national press.

5. Marty Schwerter:

   It's going to be a beast.

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