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ferocious

adj
/fəˈɹəʊʃəs/UK/fəˈɹoʊʃəs/US

Etymology

Taken from Latin ferōx (“wild, bold, savage, fierce”) + -ous.

  1. derived from ferōx

Definitions

  1. Marked by extreme and violent energy.

    • But it seemed to me that there were few faces like his, with the ferocious profile that brought to mind the Latin word rapax or one of Rouault's crazed death-dealing arbitrary kings.
    • Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.

  2. Extreme or intense.

The neighborhood

Derived

ferociously, ferociousness, monstrocious, superferocious, unferocious

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA