A bear is a friendly beast compared to a tiger.
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Beast
Synonyms for "beast" (120 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (60)
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6 entriesMore specific
14 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
8 entriesdbpedia genre
1 entriesderived
44 entriesShowing 16 of 44 words.
has context
5 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
36 entriesShowing 16 of 36 words.
Translations
242 translations across 90 languages.
Albanian
3 entries- bishë noun (non-human animal)
- bishë noun (violent/antisocial person)
- zullap noun (non-human animal)
Amharic
1 entries- አውሬ noun (non-human animal)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- θήρ noun (non-human animal)
- θηρίον noun (non-human animal)
Arabic
2 entries- مُتَوَحِّش noun (violent/antisocial person)
- وَحْش noun (non-human animal)
Armenian
4 entries- անասուն noun (violent/antisocial person)
- գազան noun (non-human animal)
- գազան noun (violent/antisocial person)
- կենդանի noun (non-human animal)
Asturian
2 entries- bestia noun (non-human animal)
- fiera noun (non-human animal)
Atong (India)
1 entries- mat noun (non-human animal)
Bashkir
1 entries- хайуан noun (non-human animal)
Basque
1 entries- aberetzar noun (non-human animal)
Belarusian
3 entries- жывёла noun (non-human animal)
- звер noun (non-human animal)
- зьвер noun (non-human animal)
Bulgarian
2 entries- живо́тно noun (non-human animal)
- звяр noun (non-human animal)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- звірь noun (non-human animal)
Catalan
4 entries- Bèstia name (figure in the Book of Revelation)
- bèstia noun (non-human animal)
- bèstia noun (violent/antisocial person)
- fera noun (non-human animal)
Cebuano
1 entries- mananap noun (non-human animal)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- لاور noun (non-human animal)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 兇暴而殘忍的人 /凶暴而残忍的人 noun (violent/antisocial person)
- 凶暴而残忍[[]]的人 noun (violent/antisocial person)
- 四足獸 /四足兽 noun (non-human animal)
- 獸 /兽 noun (non-human animal)
Chukchi
1 entries- гынник noun (non-human animal)
Church Slavic
1 entries- звѣрь noun (non-human animal)
Czech
4 entries- bestie noun (non-human animal)
- bestie noun (violent/antisocial person)
- zvíře noun (non-human animal)
- živočich noun (non-human animal)
Danish
3 entries- bæst noun (non-human animal)
- dyr noun (non-human animal)
- vilddyr noun (non-human animal)
Dutch
4 entries- beest noun (non-human animal)
- beest noun (violent/antisocial person)
- dier noun (non-human animal)
- wild dier noun (non-human animal)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- янлык noun (non-human animal)
Esperanto
2 entries- apokalipsa besto name (figure in the Book of Revelation)
- besto noun (non-human animal)
Estonian
1 entries- elajas noun (non-human animal)
Finnish
4 entries- Peto name (figure in the Book of Revelation)
- elukka noun (non-human animal)
- elukka noun (domestic animal)
- elukka noun (slang: someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically)
French
4 entries- Bête name (figure in the Book of Revelation)
- bête noun (non-human animal)
- bête noun (domestic animal)
- bête sauvage noun (non-human animal)
Georgian
2 entries- მხეცი noun (non-human animal)
- ცხოველი noun (non-human animal)
German
4 entries- Tier name (figure in the Book of Revelation)
- Bestie noun (non-human animal)
- Bestie noun (violent/antisocial person)
- Biest noun (violent/antisocial person)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐌳𐌹𐌿𐍃 noun (non-human animal)
- 𐌿𐌽𐌱𐌹𐌰𐍂𐌹 noun (violent/antisocial person)
Greek
4 entries- Θηρίο name (figure in the Book of Revelation)
- ζώο noun (violent/antisocial person)
- θηρίο noun (non-human animal)
- κτήνος noun (violent/antisocial person)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- bèt noun (non-human animal)
Hebrew
4 entries- בְּהֵמָה noun (non-human animal)
- בְּהֵמָה noun (violent/antisocial person)
- חַיָּה noun (non-human animal)
- חַיָּה noun (violent/antisocial person)
Higaonon
1 entries- langgam noun (non-human animal)
Hindi
4 entries- जंतु noun (non-human animal)
- जानवर noun (non-human animal)
- पशु noun (violent/antisocial person)
- मृग noun (non-human animal)
Hungarian
4 entries- bestia noun (non-human animal)
- dög noun (non-human animal)
- jószág noun (domestic animal)
- vadállat noun (non-human animal)
Ido
1 entries- bestio noun (non-human animal)
Indonesian
1 entries- buas noun (violent/antisocial person)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- حِیوان noun (non-human animal)
- دَد noun (non-human animal)
Irish
1 entries- beithíoch noun (non-human animal)
Istriot
1 entries- bies'cia noun (non-human animal)
Italian
2 entries- belva noun (non-human animal)
- bestia noun (non-human animal)
Japanese
4 entries- けだもの noun (violent/antisocial person)
- 猛獣 noun (non-human animal)
- 獣 noun (non-human animal)
- 獣 noun (violent/antisocial person)
Kaingang
1 entries- mĩg noun (non-human animal)
Kapampangan
1 entries- ulimo noun (non-human animal)
Kashmiri
1 entries- جانور noun (non-human animal)
Kazakh
2 entries- аң noun (non-human animal)
- хайуан noun (non-human animal)
Korean
2 entries- 야수 noun (non-human animal)
- 짐승 noun (non-human animal)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- айбан noun (non-human animal)
- аң noun (non-human animal)
- жырткыч noun (non-human animal)
Latgalian
3 entries- dzeivnīks noun (non-human animal)
- zviers noun (non-human animal)
- žeivots noun (non-human animal)
Latin
4 entries- bēstia noun (non-human animal)
- bēstia noun (violent/antisocial person)
- fera noun (non-human animal)
- ferus noun (violent/antisocial person)
Latvian
2 entries- dzīvnieks noun (non-human animal)
- zvērs noun (non-human animal)
Lithuanian
1 entries- žvėris noun (non-human animal)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- zwěrje noun (non-human animal)
Macedonian
2 entries- животно noun (non-human animal)
- ѕвер noun (non-human animal)
Middle French
1 entries- beste noun (non-human animal)
Mongolian
2 entries- ан noun (non-human animal)
- араатан noun (non-human animal)
Māori
1 entries- nau(w)hea noun (violent/antisocial person)
Nahuatl
1 entries- tecuani noun (non-human animal)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- lawir noun (non-human animal)
- rawir noun (non-human animal)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- beist noun (non-human animal)
Occitan
2 entries- bèstia noun (non-human animal)
- fèra noun (non-human animal)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- звѣрь noun (non-human animal)
Old English
1 entries- dēor noun (non-human animal)
Old French
1 entries- beste noun (non-human animal)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- جاناوار noun (non-human animal)
- حیوان noun (non-human animal)
- حیوان noun (violent/antisocial person)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- жвир noun (non-human animal)
Pashto
1 entries- ژوي noun (non-human animal)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Tia noun (non-human animal)
Polish
4 entries- bestia noun (non-human animal)
- bestia noun (violent/antisocial person)
- bydlak noun (violent/antisocial person)
- bydlę noun (violent/antisocial person)
Portuguese
4 entries- besta noun (non-human animal)
- besta noun (violent/antisocial person)
- fera noun (non-human animal)
- fera noun (violent/antisocial person)
Punjabi
3 entries- حَیوان noun (non-human animal)
- حَیوان noun (non-human animal)
- ਹੈਵਾਨ noun (non-human animal)
Romanian
2 entries- bestie noun (non-human animal)
- fiară noun (non-human animal)
Russian
4 entries- Зверь name (figure in the Book of Revelation)
- бе́стия noun (non-human animal)
- живо́тное noun (non-human animal)
- зверь noun (non-human animal)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- ainmhidh noun (non-human animal)
- beathach noun (non-human animal)
- brùid noun (violent/antisocial person)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- zver noun (non-human animal)
- zver noun (violent/antisocial person)
- zverka noun (non-human animal)
- zvijer noun (non-human animal)
Slovak
4 entries- zver noun (non-human animal)
- zviera noun (non-human animal)
- šelma noun (non-human animal)
- živočích noun (non-human animal)
Slovene
4 entries- zver noun (non-human animal)
- zver noun (violent/antisocial person)
- zverina noun (violent/antisocial person)
- žival noun (non-human animal)
Spanish
4 entries- Bestia name (figure in the Book of Revelation)
- animal noun (violent/antisocial person)
- bestia noun (non-human animal)
- bestia noun (violent/antisocial person)
Swahili
3 entries- mnyama noun (domestic animal)
- nunda noun (non-human animal)
- nunda noun (violent/antisocial person)
Swedish
1 entries- best noun (non-human animal)
Tagalog
1 entries- halimaw noun (non-human animal)
Tajik
3 entries- дад noun (non-human animal)
- дарранда noun (non-human animal)
- ҳайвон noun (non-human animal)
Telugu
3 entries- జంతువు noun (non-human animal)
- పశువు noun (violent/antisocial person)
- మృగము noun (non-human animal)
Turkish
2 entries- canavar noun (non-human animal)
- hayvan noun (non-human animal)
Ukrainian
2 entries- звір noun (non-human animal)
- твари́на noun (non-human animal)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- zwěrjo noun (non-human animal)
Urdu
1 entries- حَیوان noun (non-human animal)
Uzbek
1 entries- hayvon noun (non-human animal)
Volapük
3 entries- bestaf noun (non-human animal)
- lunim noun (non-human animal)
- nim noun (non-human animal)
Yiddish
2 entries- בעסטיע noun (non-human animal)
- בעסטיע noun (violent/antisocial person)
Sample sentences
32 total sentences available.
The food was not fit for man or beast.
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The primitive man was frightened at the sign of the beast.
Source: tatoeba (239459)
The primitive man was frightened at the sight of a savage beast.
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