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Synonyms for ferocious
fəˈroʊ ʃəsfe·ro·cious
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ferocious
Fierce signifies having a furious and cruel nature, or being in a furious and cruel mood, more commonly the latter. It applies to that which is now intensely excited, or liable to intense and sudden excitement. Ferocious refers to a state or disposition; that which is fierce flashes or blazes; that which is ferocious steadily burns; we speak of a ferocious animal, a fierce passion. A fiery spirit with a good disposition is quickly excitable in a good cause, but may not be fierce or ferocious. Savage signifies untrained, uncultivated. Ferocious always denotes a tendency to violence; it is more distinctly bloodthirsty than the other words; a person may be deeply, intensely cruel, and not at all ferocious; a ferocious countenance expresses habitual ferocity; a fierce countenance may express habitual fierceness, or only the sudden anger of the moment. That which is wild is simply unrestrained; the word may imply no anger or harshness; as, wild delight, wild alarm.
Synonyms:
fierce, fiery, furious, impetuous, raging, savage, uncultivated, untrained, violent, wildAntonyms:
affectionate, docile, gentle, harmless, kind, mild, patient, peaceful, submissive, sweet, tame, tender
Princeton's WordNet
ferocious, fierce, furious, savageadjective
marked by extreme and violent energy
"a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
Synonyms:
angered, rough, trigger-happy, uncivilized, savage, barbarous, angry, cutthroat, infuriated, tempestuous, furious, raging, violent, fell, fierce, barbaric, feral, cruel, enraged, vehement, maddened, roughshod, tearing, boisterous, barbarian, uncivilised, bowelless, vicious, brutal, ferine, wildAntonyms:
nonviolent
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2028 | wild | |
#4538 | fell | |
#5548 | rough | |
#5940 | violent | |
#6547 | angry | |
#9271 | brutal | |
#9792 | savage | |
#11289 | cruel | |
#15142 | fierce | |
#15992 | vicious | |
#16835 | furious | |
#18470 | fiery | |
#18847 | raging | |
#22217 | tearing | |
#26177 | barbarian | |
#27959 | feral | |
#39249 | angered | |
#39424 | ferocious | |
#43466 | enraged | |
#43810 | barbaric | |
#47449 | cutthroat | |
#48964 | untrained | |
#60245 | boisterous | |
#66341 | barbarous | |
#69595 | infuriated | |
#76435 | vehement | |
#83664 | impetuous | |
#102327 | uncivilized | |
#106455 | tempestuous | |
#122011 | uncultivated | |
#126547 | roughshod | |
#163260 | maddened | |
#236180 | uncivilised |
How to use ferocious in a sentence?
As fighters, they have a reputation that goes back centuries of being ferocious and instilling fear among invading armies that tried and failed to crush them. So, you end up with Chechen characters in novels by Tolstoy and Pushkin, some of the great literary giants of Russian literature, and this fear of the Chechens fighter is not for nothing.
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama mission is the story of an epic battle and the ferocious eternal struggle between good and evil.
A ferocious confrontation is shaping up between the will of the Hong Kong people and the Xi Jinping administration,( which is) determined to be the arbiter of things in Hong Kong.
If this United States administration always treats other countries, companies or individuals in a ferocious way, then no one would dare invest in the United States.
Williams wrote about current and past racial tensions in America reflected through Walter Williams teenage years in a housing project in Northern Philadelphia. News of Walter Williams death promptedwords of grief from several prominent Republicans. Walter Williams was legendary, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wrote. Walter Williams was brilliant, incisive, witty, and profound. I grew up reading Walter Williams, and Walter Williams was a ferocious defender of free markets and a powerful explainer of the virtues of Liberty.
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- див, свирепBulgarian
- divokýCzech
- άγριοςGreek
- ferocaEsperanto
- ferozSpanish
- raivopäinen, julma, raivokasFinnish
- féroceFrench
- kegyetlenHungarian
- վայրագArmenian
- ferocaIdo
- woest, wildDutch
- brutalny, bestialski, okrutnyPolish
- свире́пый, жесто́кийRussian
- vildsynt, vildSwedish
- மூர்க்கமானTamil
- భయంకరమైనTelugu
- زبردستUrdu
- 兇猛Chinese
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