bestials means synonym of bestial (“cattle”). It carries an Arena rating of 1453, earned across 2 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, bestials ranks #6,754 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #8,519 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #10,331 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #10,432 of 17,143 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words.
Why “bestials” is a great word
A term for cattle or beasts, collectively. From the Middle English 'bestial', from Old French 'bestial', ultimately from the Latin 'bestia' ("beast, animal"). Unlike "bestiality," which names a human act of depravity, or "livestock," which specifies animals for human utility, bestials are the creatures themselves in their collective, unadorned state. It is the lowing mass in a misty field at dawn, the patient shuffling of hooves in a stone pen, the dumb, hulking shadows moving slowly under a harvest moon—a word for the brute, breathing fundament of a world that is no longer our own.
noun
- Synonym of bestial (“cattle”).
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