animalized
Reduced to instinct
Animalized means made animal-like or reduced to animal characteristics.
The word typically describes humans stripped of higher qualities—reason, dignity, or moral sense—and reduced to instinct or brutality: The prisoners were animalized by years of brutal treatment.
It can also describe something given animal features or qualities: animalized figures in medieval art.
Wild after domestication
- savageFierce and untamed
- brutishCruel and uncivilized
- beastlySavagely cruel or unpleasant
- untamedNot domesticated
creaturely · dehumanized · primal · wild · ferocious · rabid · snarling · howling
Of a clan
- totemicOf sacred emblems
- shamanicOf spirit-world intermediaries
- hunter-gathererPre-farming subsistence lifestyle
- atavisticReverting to ancestral type
cave-dwelling · prehistoric · feral · uncivilized · regressed · devolved · primal · barbarous
Remaining alive against odds
- territorialDefensive about owned space
- predatoryExploiting the vulnerable
- packGroup or compress
- matingReproductive pairing behavior
hunting · foraging · reflexive · primal · gut · fight-or-flight · maternal · defensive
Thorough change in form
- shapeshiftingTransforming into other beings
- werewolfShapeshifting wolf-person
- lycanthropyMythical wolf-becoming affliction
- hybridThing of mixed parentage
chimeric · mutated · transmogrified · morphed · creature · skin-walker · changeling · transformed
feral
Wild after domestication
untamed · creaturely · dehumanized · primal · wild · ferocious · rabid · snarling · howling · prowling
tribal
Of a clan
- totemicOf sacred emblems
- shamanicOf spirit-world intermediaries
- hunter-gathererPre-farming subsistence lifestyle
atavistic · cave-dwelling · prehistoric · feral · uncivilized · regressed · devolved · primal · barbarous · stone-age
survival
Remaining alive against odds
- territorialDefensive about owned space
- predatoryExploiting the vulnerable
- packGroup or compress
mating · hunting · foraging · reflexive · primal · gut · fight-or-flight · maternal · defensive · aggressive
transformation
Thorough change in form
- shapeshiftingTransforming into other beings
- werewolfShapeshifting wolf-person
- lycanthropyMythical wolf-becoming affliction
hybrid · chimeric · mutated · transmogrified · morphed · creature · skin-walker · changeling · transformed · bestiary
animalizedcivilized
Socially developed and refined
refined · cultured · cultivated · polished · domesticated
animalizedspiritualized
Made transcendent in character
sanctified · divinized · purified · ennobled · transcendent
animalizedhumanized
Made more human-like
dignified · personalized · individualized · rationalized · ennobled