About The Word Ferocious
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Ferocious
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What's The Definition Of Ferocious?
[adj] marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ferocious: fierce | furious | savage | violent Related Terms | Find terms related to Ferocious: abandoned | aggressive | amok | animal | antagonistic | anthropophagous | atrocious | barbaric | barbarous | battling | beastly | bellicose | belligerent | bellowing | berserk | bestial | bloodthirsty | bloody | bloody-minded | brutal | brutalized | brute | brutish | cannibalistic | carried away | chauvinist | chauvinistic | combative | contentious | cruel | cruel-hearted | delirious | demoniac | demoniacal | destructive | devilish | diabolic | diabolical | distracted | Draconian | ecstatic | enemy | enraptured | fell | feral | ferine | fiendish | fiendlike | fierce | fighting | frantic | frenzied | full of fight | fulminating | furious | grim | haggard | hawkish | hellish | hog-wild | hostile | howling | hysterical | implacable | in a transport | in hysterics | infernal | inhuman | inhumane | inimical | intoxicated | jingo | jingoish | jingoist | jingoistic | kill-crazy | mad | madding | malign | malignant | maniac | martial | merciless | militant | militaristic | military | monstrous | murderous | noncivilized | offensive | orgasmic | orgiastic | pitiless | possessed | predatory | pugnacious | quarrelsome | rabid | raging | ramping | ranting | rapacious | ravening | ravenous | raving | ravished | relentless | roaring | running mad | ruthless | saber-rattling | sadistic | sanguinary | sanguineous | satanic | savage | scrappy | sharkish | slavering | soldierlike | soldierly | storming | subhuman | tameless | Tartarean | transported | trigger-happy | truculent | unchristian | uncivilized | uncontrollable | unfriendly | ungentle | unhuman | unpacific | unpeaceable | unpeaceful | untamed | vicious | violent | voracious | warlike | warmongering | warring | wild | wild-eyed | wild-looking | wolfish See Also | Ferocious In Webster's Dictionary \Fe*ro"cious\, a. [L. ferox, -ocis, fierce: cf. F.
f['e]roce. See {Ferocity}.]
Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous;
rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.
The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. --Lowth.
Syn: {Ferocious}, {Fierce}, {Savage}, {Barbarous}.
Usage: When these words are applied to human feelings or
conduct, ferocious describes the disposition; fierce,
the haste and violence of an act; barbarous, the
coarseness and brutality by which it was marked;
savage, the cruel and unfeeling spirit which it
showed. A man is ferocious in his temper, fierce in
his actions, barbarous in the manner of carrying out
his purposes, savage in the spirit and feelings
expressed in his words or deeds. -- {Fe*ro"cious*ly},
adv. -- {Fe*ro"cious*ness}, n.
It [Christianity] has adapted the ferociousness
of war. --Blair.
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