Definition of ferocious
- a ferocious predator
- the ferocious butchery of women and children
- ferocious heat
- The competition among the students was ferocious.
A ferocious wind swept the beach.
The competition among the students was ferocious.
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amicable, companionable, comradely, congenial, cordial, friendly, genial, hearty, warm, warmhearted;
benign, compassionate, kind, merciful;
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;
bestial, brute, inhuman, inhumane;
heartless, implacable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, unrelenting, wanton;
bloodthirsty, bloody, homicidal, murdering, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine;
: very fierce or violent
: very great or extreme
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