Fierce
[fɪəs] or [fɪrs]
Definition
(adj.) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; 'fierce loyalty'; 'in a tearing rage'; 'vehement dislike'; 'violent passions' .
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Definition
(superl.) Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.
(superl.) Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious.
(superl.) Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Savage, ferocious, ravenous, furious, infuriate, barbarous, fell.[2]. Violent, vehement, impetuous, fiery, passionate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Wild, savage, violent, raging, fiery, furious, impetuous, ferocious
ANT:Mild, tame, docile, harmless, calm, gentle
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Definition
adj. ferocious: violent: angry.—adv. Fierce′ly.—n. Fierce′ness.
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Examples
- If the woman's fierce temper once got beyond her control, and once flamed out on me, she might yet say the words which would put the clue in my hands. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- How they must have tugged at the pitiless fetters as the fierce fires surged around them! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I cried in tones of fierce anger. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Very true, said Napier, suddenly jumping up; and, having wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, he began briskly to make fierce love to me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At this, the charity-boy looked monstrous fierce; and said that Oliver would want one before long, if he cut jokes with his superiors in that way. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The cries of the gorilla proclaimed that it was in mortal combat with some other denizen of the fierce wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was fierce, and full of purpose; but the purpose might have been as much against himself as against another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They cannot be a day's march ahead of us, he exclaimed, the light of battle leaping to his fierce face. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Aren't they very fierce? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The gentlest summer breezes and the fiercest blasts of winter are produced by the unequal heating of air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The movement was prompt, and in a few minutes the fiercest of struggles began. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Green, were fiercest in the greater towns, where filthy and undrained streets afforded a constant haunt to leprosy and fever. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- This continued, growing fiercer and fiercer, for about four hours, the enemy being forced back gradually until he was driven into his camp. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A like spirit, but fiercer and more violent, has appeared in politics. Plato. The Republic.
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