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animalistic

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of animalistic

having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal

with animalistic fury the boxer tore into his opponent

Synonyms of animalistic

beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, feral, ferine, subhuman, swinish

Words Related to animalistic

animal, bodily, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, physical, sensual

barbaric, barbarous, cruel, heartless, inhumane, sadistic, savage, vicious, wanton

coarse, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, lowbred, rude, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, vulgar

Near Antonyms of animalistic

chivalrous, elevated, gallant, great, greathearted, high, high-minded, lofty, lordly, magnanimous, noble, sublime

angelic (or angelical), spiritual

beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, tenderhearted

cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, refined, well-bred

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