Synonyms of the word

animal

• n. In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a…
• n. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
• n. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc.).
• n. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
• n. (informal) A person of a particular type.
• adj. Of or relating to animals.
• adj. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
• adj. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
• adj. (slang, Ireland) Excellent.

animal-like

• adj. Resembling an animal.

animallike

• adj. Alternative spelling of animal-like.

beast

• n. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous…
• n. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
• n. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
• n. (slang) A large and impressive thing or structure.
• n. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
• n. (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
• n. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
• v. (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
• adj. (slang) great; excellent; powerful.

being

• v. present participle of be.
• n. A living creature.
• n. The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
• n. (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
• n. (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
• n. (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
• conj. (obsolete) Given that; since.

birdlike

• adj. Similar to a bird or an aspect of a bird.
• adv. (postpositive) In the manner of a bird; as, to fly birdlike.

brute

• adj. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
• adj. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
• adj. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
• adj. Crude, unpolished.
• adj. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
• adj. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
• adj. Inexplicable.
• n. (now archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
• n. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
• n. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
• v. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

carnal

• adj. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.
• adj. Worldly or earthly; temporal.
• adj. Of or relating to the body or flesh.

cat-like

• adj. Alternative form of catlike.

catlike

• adj. resembling a cat; feline.
• adj. slow, deliberate, quiet and stealthy.

cranelike

• adj. Resembling a crane (the bird) or some aspect of one.
• adj. Resembling a crane (mechanical lifting device) or some aspect of one.

creature

• n. (now rare) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
• n. A living being; an animal or human.
• n. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

eaglelike

• adj. Resembling or characteristic of an eagle.

fauna

• n. (uncountable) animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• n. (countable) a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.

fishlike

• adj. Having some characteristics of a fish.

fleshly

• adj. corporeal or bodily.
• adj. sensual; carnal; lascivious.
• adj. worldly.
• adj. (obsolete) animal; not vegetable.
• adv. (obsolete) Carnally; sexually.

foxlike

• adj. Like a fox.

frog-like

• adj. Alternative form of froglike.

hawklike

• adj. Reminiscent of a hawk.

horse-like

• adj. Alternative form of horselike.

horselike

• adj. Similar to a horse, or to a characteristic of a horse.

insectlike

• adj. Resembling an insect in any of various attributes such as form, behavior, or sound.

monkey-like

• adj. Alternative form of monkeylike.

organism

• n. (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
• n. (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.

ostrich-like

• adj. Alternative spelling of ostrichlike.

physical

• adj. Having to do with the body.
• adj. Having to do with the material world.
• adj. Involving bodily force.
• adj. Having to do with physics.
• adj. (computing) Not virtual; directly corresponding to hardware operation.
• adj. (obsolete) Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative.
• n. Physical examination.

sensual

• adj. Inducing pleasurable and/or erotic sensations.
• adj. (not comparable) Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.

troutlike

• adj. Resembling or characteristic of trout.

turkey-like

• adj. In the manner of a turkey.
• adv. In the manner of a turkey.