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. Francis Bacon:

   Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

2. Jennifer Lawrenceseems:

   Thank you, Emma Watson, for 'Beauty and the Beast.' I’ve seen it six or seven times. If anybody has any questions about it, come to me.

3. Marty Schwerter:

   It's going to be a beast.

4. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn:

   One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

5. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1:

   It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

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