beastly

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Meaning · English

Of computer hardware or motor vehicles etc.: ostentatiously powerful.

Register: slang

Examples

In addition to a Core i7-860 with a full-sized heatsink and 4GB of DDR3 RAM, the company showed its SUGO SG07 housing today's most beastly graphics card, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970, which is about 30cm long.

Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)

Sources & notes

Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).

Common questions

What does “beastly” mean?

Of computer hardware or motor vehicles etc.: ostentatiously powerful.

Is “beastly” formal or informal?

beastly is generally slang.