Synonyms for animal
- noun
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
3. Brute — A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person
Adjective
3. Wild — raw, base, unhindered by social codes
Definitions
- n. 1
A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
- n. 2
A person who overeats or eats rapidly and noisily.
- adj. 1
Of or relating to animals.
- adj. 2
Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- animals → pigs, hogs, gluttons, dogs…
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An animal is a sentient being, distinct from inanimate matter and from vegetable life on the one side and from mental and spiritual existence on the other. Thus man is properly classified as an animal.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- pig Don't be such a pig! Leave some for everyone else.
- hog Hey, don't hog them all up! Leave some for me, too.
- beast Grr! Avoid not, unwelcome evil and cowardly beast!
- fauna The local flora and fauna are incredibly diverse.
By length
- 3 letters
- dog1, pig1, hog1
- 4 letters
- wild1, deer1
- 5 letters
- being2, gross1, beast1, fauna2, brute1
- 6 letters
- brutal2, savage2, carnal2
- 7 letters
- monster2, sensual3, critter2, beastly2, untamed, brutish2, glutton, bestial2, fleshly
- 8 letters
- physical3, creature2
- 11 letters
- animalistic
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (being2 = 2 syllables).