ζωώδης — meaning in English

English meaning

• animal noun A living, moving organism that feeds on other organisms rather than making its own food, as distinct from plants and fungi.
• brutal adjective Extremely violent, cruel, or harsh.

Senses

ζωώδης is used for these senses in English:

• animal Of or relating to animals.
• brutal Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner.
• subhuman (inherently emic, often, offensive) Lacking characteristics of a human in a way judged to be less than human by some value judgment, opinion, or belief system (as for example an anthropocentric view of nonhuman primates or a Nazi view of various human outgroups).

animal — full definition

1. noun A living, moving organism that feeds on other organisms rather than making its own food, as distinct from plants and fungi.
2. noun Any creature other than a human, especially a mammal.
3. noun Informal: a person who acts in a wild, brutal, or uncontrolled way.
4. adj Relating to animals, or driven by raw physical instinct rather than reason.

brutal — full definition

1. adjective Extremely violent, cruel, or harsh.
2. adjective Blunt and unpleasant, but honest.

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