[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/beastly.html)

[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/) / beastly

[← B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/B/)

# beastly

«beastly» in Mova's school dictionary: **very unpleasant, nasty or annoying** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (beastlier, beastliest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal, British, old-fashioned) Beastly means very unpleasant, nasty or annoying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#m1)

2) Beastly can also mean cruel or unkind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a remark or a tale that someone finds unpleasant to hear

### examples

- It's a beastly day, cold and wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#x1)
- That was a beastly thing to say. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#x2)
- The beastly stuff tasted awful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#x3)
- He was in a beastly mood all morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beastly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beastly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.