Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Beastly; pertaining to or characteristic of beasts; brutal: as, “animal and belluine life,”
- In zoology, of or pertaining to the Belluæ.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of beasts; bestial; brutal; animal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Pertaining to, or like, a beast; brutal.
Etymologies
- From the Latin belluīnus, an alternative spelling of bēluīnus, whence the English beluine. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We are coming to a period when it is not merely to be a scramble of fierce and belluine passions in the strife for power and ambition.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘belluine’.
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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Obnoxious Company
I feel like I have such a negative mind-set for doing lists like these, haha! But they are fun words to use in writing, anyway- especially when writing big-headed characters that like to insult peo...
harridan, groise, grinagog, frippet, belluine, dangleation, irascible, malingerer, chiseler, soubrette, acrasial, bruit and 31 more...
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Say What? Or, Words That Particularly...
Words that I need to work on, to say the least. -_- At my school it was considered impressive to use the word "plethora." (To top it off, it was pronounced incorrectly...by my teacher, no less.) ...
opprobrium, refulgent, jejune, otiose, synecdoche, pulchritude, abrogate, syllepsis, eudaemonic, milieu, euonym, succedaneum and 18 more...
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jinglebelljosie adj. like a beast; brutal and beastly Oct 23, 2008