Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extremely aggressive or violent.
- adjective Characterized by or showing extreme aggressiveness or violence.
- adjective Extremely powerful or destructive.
- adjective Extreme in activity or feeling; intense.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a fierce or cruel nature; savage; wild; rapacious: as, a ferocious disposition; ferocious savages; a ferocious lion.
- Indicating or expressive of ferocity: as, a ferocious look.
- Synonyms Untamed, cruel, fell, ruthless, relentless, pitiless, merciless, brutal, inhuman, sanguinary, bloody, furious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Marked by extreme andviolent energy . - adjective
Extreme orintense .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by extreme and violent energy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The point of this item is to celebrate the wit and glorious non-wisdom of Brittany S. Pearce, played by Heather Morris with a killer deadpan that this week exploded in ferocious dance and song.
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So ferocious is the antidote to the Labour - lite problem it will leave much of their own Party behind.
Would you Like To Try A New Position ? Newmania 2008
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Her own brother Theo despised cats, the Major complained when Sidhi dug in his flower beds, Duncan treated him with polite indifference, Felicity pronounced him unsanitary, and Meg lived in a bed-sit in Kilburn with a landlady she described as ferocious—no good prospects there.
All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994
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Her own brother Theo despised cats, the Major complained when Sidhi dug in his flower beds, Duncan treated him with polite indifference, Felicity pronounced him unsanitary, and Meg lived in a bed-sit in Kilburn with a landlady she described as ferocious—no good prospects there.
All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994
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Her own brother Theo despised cats, the Major complained when Sidhi dug in his flower beds, Duncan treated him with polite indifference, Felicity pronounced him unsanitary, and Meg lived in a bed-sit in Kilburn with a landlady she described as ferocious—no good prospects there.
All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994
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Plumadore, a third Marine whose body was thought to have been obliterated in ferocious fighting, is buried in California -- in Berry's grave.
Jakovac, John A. 1967
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The charge which followed was resolute, and the word ferocious best describes the struggle which followed.
A Life of Gen Robert E Lee Cooke, John E 1876
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He issued his orders in a voice of thunder and with an air of what, for want of a better expression, we may term ferocious heartiness.
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He issued his orders in a voice of thunder and with an air of what, for want of a better expression, we may term ferocious heartiness.
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That they should be avaricious, greedy of plunder, and ferocious, is the natural result of their mode of life.
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