ferocious

[fe·ro·cious]

The adjective ferocious means more than merely angry or active. If you can imagine the wildest, most savage animal ready to rip your arms off and shred the muscles, you would be imagining a ferocious beast.

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Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.

Adjective S.
marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"


a.
Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.


Ferocious

Fe*ro"cious , a. [L. ferox, -ocis, fierce: cf. F. f'82roce. See Ferocity.] Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.
The humbled power of a ferocious enemy.
Syn. -- Ferocious, Fierce, Savage, Barbarous. 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.

Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.

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Usage Examples

Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

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Other Usage Examples

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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