eläimellinen — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
eläimellinen is used for these senses in English:
- animal Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
- animal (science) Any member of the kingdom Animalia of multicellular organisms that are usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and which derive energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (further distinguishing them from plants).
- bestial (literally, _, and, _, figuratively) Beast-like
- brute Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). [from 16th c.]
- goatish Goaty, goatlike.
animal — full definition
- noun A living, moving organism that feeds on other organisms rather than making its own food, as distinct from plants and fungi.
- noun Any creature other than a human, especially a mammal.
- noun Informal: a person who acts in a wild, brutal, or uncontrolled way.
- adj Relating to animals, or driven by raw physical instinct rather than reason.
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