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Fierce
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What's The Definition Of Fierce?
[adj] violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
[adj] ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage" [adj] marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" [adj] marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fierce: boisterous | bowelless | cutthroat | ferocious | furious | intense | merciless | rough | savage | stormy | tearing | trigger-happy | unmerciful | vehement | violent Related Terms | Find terms related to Fierce: abandoned | acid | acidulous | acrid | acrimonious | acute | aggressive | amok | angry | animal | antagonistic | anthropophagous | astringent | atrocious | awful | barbaric | barbarous | battling | beastly | bellicose | belligerent | bellowing | berserk | bestial | biting | bitter | bloodthirsty | bloody | bloody-minded | brutal | brutalized | brute | brutish | cannibalistic | carried away | caustic | chauvinist | chauvinistic | combative | concentrated | contentious | cruel | cruel-hearted | cutting | dangerous | delirious | demoniac | demoniacal | desperate | devilish | diabolic | dire | distracted | double-edged | Draconian | drastic | dreadful | ecstatic | edged | enemy | enraged | enraptured | escharotic | excessive | exorbitant | exquisite | extravagant | extreme | fell | feral | ferine | ferocious | fiendish | fiendlike | fiery | fighting | fighting mad | frantic | frenzied | full of fight | fulminating | fuming | furious | great | grim | haggard | harsh | hawkish | hellish | hog-wild | homicidal | hopping mad | hostile | hotheaded | howling | hysterical | immoderate | impetuous | in a rage | in a transport | in hysterics | incisive | infernal | infuriate | infuriated | inhuman | inhumane | inimical | inordinate | intemperate | intense | intoxicated | intractable | jingo | jingoish | jingoist | jingoistic | keen | kill-crazy | mad | maddened | madding | malign | malignant | maniac | martial | menacing | merciless | militant | militaristic | military | mordacious | mordant | murderous | noncivilized | offensive | orgasmic | orgiastic | outrageous | passionate | penetrating | piercing | pitiless | poignant | possessed | pugnacious | quarrelsome | rabid | racking | raging | ramping | ranting | raving | raving mad | ravished | rigorous | roaring | roaring mad | rough | running mad | ruthless | saber-rattling | sadistic | sanguinary | sanguineous | satanic | savage | scathing | scrappy | severe | sharkish | sharp | simmering | slavering | soldierlike | soldierly | splitting | stabbing | stinging | storming | stormy | strident | stringent | subhuman | superlative | supreme | tameless | tart | Tartarean | tempestuous | terrible | threatening | tigerish | tornadic | tough | transcendent | transported | trenchant | trigger-happy | truculent | tumultuous | turbulent | unchristian | uncivilized | unconscionable | uncontrollable | unfriendly | ungentle | unhuman | unpacific | unpeaceable | unpeaceful | untamed | vehement | venomous | vicious | violent | virulent | vitriolic | volcanic | warlike | warmongering | warring | wild | wild-eyed | wild-looking | wolfish See Also | Fierce In Webster's Dictionary \Fierce\, a. [Compar. {Fiercer}; superl. {Fiercest}.]
[OE. fers, fiers, OF. fier, nom. fiers, fierce, savage,
cruel, F. fier proud, from L. ferus wild, savage, cruel;
perh. akin to E. bear the animal. Cf. {Feral}, {Ferocity}.]
1. Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce
wind.
His fierce thunder drove us to the deep. --Milton.
2. Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or
injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious. ``A
fierce whisper.'' --Dickens. ``A fierce tyrant.'' --Pope.
The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear. --Milton.
Thou huntest me as a fierce lion. --Job. x. 16.
3. Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
Syn: Ferocious; savage; cruel; vehement; impetuous;
barbarous; fell. See {Ferocious}. -- {Fierce"ly}, adv.
-- {Fierce"ness}, n.
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