beastie

noun

beast·​ie ˈbē-stē 

: a real or imaginary animal or creature : beast

Mr. Gould is not a run-of-the-mill "nature writer" given to tender accounts of wondrous beasties or excited descriptions of biological freaks.

—H. Jack Geiger

It describes the adventures of an old man who lives in a cave by the Loch of Lochnagar, with such characters as … a grouse who repels visitors and birds and beasties who live around Balmoral Castle.

—Herbert Mitgang

… 900 acres of protected beach, marshlands and meadow keep everything from wild sea oats to native birds and beasties safe and sound.

—Town & Country

Big, squishy mutants and dreamy monsters. Otherworldly tentacled zomboid beasties.

—Owen Gleiberman

Synonyms

• animal
• beast
• brute
• creature
• critter

Examples of beastie in a Sentence

I've become used to sharing our cabin in the woods with all sorts of little beasties.

Recent Examples on the Web

The risks are evident – having these kinds of four-legged beasties roaming free around us without the guardrails they’re programmed with could be – well - pretty chaotic. —John Werner, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025

In this movie, their most formidable foes are a hellish bunch of beasties disguised as a rival boy band. —Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 May 2025

Set in a fictional, secluded land of mountains and lakes, Ochi follows a plucky teen named Yuri (played by Helena Zengel), who’s been raised by her father to fear and hunt the reclusive little beasties called ochi. —David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2025

From hummingbirds and butterflies to spiders and even lowly beetles, all those wee beasties are part of an intricate web that makes up an ecosystem. —Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 11 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1714, in the meaning defined above