Synonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- extremely
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- filthy
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- heavily
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- mortally
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- rattling
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- vastly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
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Although labor actions were unfolding in other parts of the country, unions were fiercely opposed in the South, by then the country’s center of textile manufacturing.
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Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2024
Kate Bush has always been a fiercely original art-pop icon.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2024
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Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2024
Kate Bush has always been a fiercely original art-pop icon.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for fiercely
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“Fiercely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiercely. Accessed 3 May. 2024.
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