Antonyms for beast
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1. beast

   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. But because the animal life is the lowest and rudest part of his being and that which he shares with inferior creatures, to call any individual man an animal is to imply that the animal nature has undue supremacy, and so is deep condemnation or utter insult. The brute is the animal viewed as dull to all finer feeling; the beast is looked upon as a being of appetites. To call a man a brute is to imply that he is unfeeling and cruel; to call him a beast is to indicate that he is vilely sensual. We speak of the cruel father as a brute to his children; of the drunkard as making a beast of himself. So firmly are these figurative senses established that we now incline to avoid applying brute or beast to any creature, as a horse or dog, for which we have any affection; we prefer in such cases the word animal. Creature is a word of wide signification, including all the things that God has created, whether inanimate objects, plants, animals, angels, or men. The animals of a region are collectively called its fauna.

   Antonyms:
   angel, inanimate object, man, matter, mind, mineral, soul, spirit, substance (material), vegetable

   Synonyms:
   animal, brute, fauna, living creature, living organism, sentient being

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1. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, faunanoun

   a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

   Synonyms:
   zoology, puppet, fauna, tool, animal, animate being, wight, wildcat, brute, wolf, creature, savage

2. beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcatnoun

   a cruelly rapacious person

   Synonyms:
   wildcat well, masher, skirt chaser, fauna, animal, animate being, wildcat, brute, woman chaser, wolf, barbarian, creature, savage

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1. beastnoun

   Synonyms:
   brute, quadruped, monster, brute

How to use beast in a sentence?

1. Dan Stevens:

   Like all great Disney films and all great movie musicals, it's in glorious technicolor and it really embraces all colors of the rainbow, beauty and the Beast.

2. William Congreve:

   Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.

3. W.S. Gilbert:

   No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.

4. Jake Anderson:

   I don’t think it was fit for man or beast out there, but we were still there and that’s what makes it entertaining. it comes to a point where, if you’re not going to make money, you might as well go on land. You have to just muster up everything you’ve got and trust in your guys and trust you taught them well. You’re going to have to put them in harm's way... every day for 54 days.

5. Edward Dahlberg:

   Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.

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