ferocious

Synonyms

fell, fierce, grim, savage, vicious;

Antonyms

gentle, mild, unaggressive;

Near Antonyms

amicable, companionable, comradely, congenial, cordial, friendly, genial, hearty, warm, warmhearted;

compliant, submissive, tame;

benign, compassionate, kind, merciful;

pacific, peaceable, peaceful;

amiable, complaisant, obliging;

human, humane;

civilized, cultured;

Related Words

argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, belligerent, brawly, combative, confrontational, discordant, disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, scrappy, warlike;

bare-knuckle (also bare-knuckled), blood-and-guts, in-your-face, take-no-prisoners;

menacing, threatening;

bestial, brute, inhuman, inhumane;

barbaric, uncivilized, wild;

heartless, implacable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, unrelenting, wanton;

bloodthirsty, bloody, homicidal, murdering, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine;

rapacious, ravenous, voracious;