ferocious
Meaning of ferocious
adjective
- savagely fierce, cruel, or violent.
a ferocious beast
a ferocious battle
mid 17th century: from Latin ferox, feroc- ‘fierce’ + -ious.
Information about ferocious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of ferocious
fe-ro-cious
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- ferocious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
ferocious synonyms
Meaning fierce:
Meaning (of an animal or plant) living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated or cultivated:
Meaning resembling or characteristic of a wild animal:
Meaning not domesticated or otherwise controlled:
Meaning (of an animal) preying naturally on others:
Meaning aggressively greedy or grasping:
Meaning (of a ferocious wild animal) extremely hungry and hunting for prey:
Meaning ready or likely to attack or confront; characterized by or resulting from aggression:
Meaning able or likely to cause harm or injury:
Meaning savagely violent:
Meaning resembling or characteristic of a brute:
Meaning deliberately cruel or violent:
Meaning using or involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something:
Meaning involving or characterized by bloodshed or cruelty:
Meaning extremely brutal:
Meaning savagely cruel:
Meaning deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others:
Meaning having or showing no pity or compassion for others:
Meaning without regret or guilt:
Meaning wilfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it:
Meaning showing no pity; cruel:
Meaning showing no mercy:
Meaning displaying a complete lack of feeling or consideration:
Meaning having or showing a desire to kill and maim:
Meaning capable of or intending to murder; dangerously violent:
Meaning resembling or likened to a tiger, especially in being fierce and determined:
Meaning resembling or likened to a wolf, especially in being rapacious, voracious, or lascivious:
Meaning evil or morally wrong:
Meaning lacking human qualities of compassion and mercy; cruel and barbaric:
Meaning having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster:
Meaning causing moral revulsion:
Meaning extremely cruel or unpleasant:
Meaning of or like hell:
Meaning characteristic of the Devil, or so evil as to be suggestive of the Devil:
Meaning very unpleasant:
Meaning past of fall:
Meaning involving or causing much bloodshed:
ferocious antonyms
Meaning (of an animal) not dangerous or frightened of people; domesticated:
Meaning having or showing a mild, kind, or tender temperament or character:
Translation of ferocious
- German: wild, brutal, rabiat
- Spanish: salvaje, furioso, bravo, brava, feroz, fiero, fiera, furiosa
- French: furieux, sauvage, féroce
- Italian: feroce, furioso, selvaggio
- Portuguese: feroz
Words that rhyme with ferocious
aerobious, amphibious, anaerobious, antiscabious, dubious, helobious, hematobious, indubious, microbious, nonamphibious, rabious, rubious, scabious, stibious, superbious, superdubious, triphibious, undubious, Delicious, Procious, acinacious, ametoecious, androdioecious, andromonoecious, appendicious, artificious, astucious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, autecious, autoecious, avaricious, bibacious, bodacious, boldacious, bowdacious, capacious, capricious, cilicious, coconscious, cogracious, conconscious, conscious, contumacious, curvacious, delicious, dicacious, diecious, dioecious
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