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Synonyms for fierce

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  1. Said especially of people and animals

    ferocious, wild, savage, furious, enraged, raging, impetuous, untamed, angry, passionate, primitive, uncivilized, brutish, feral, animal, raving, terrible, frightening, fearsome, menacing, awful, venomous, bold, malevolent, malign, brutal, cruel, merciless, ruthless, bloodthirsty, bloody, murderous, sanguinary, truculent, aggressive, hostile, violent, monstrous, rough, grim, vicious, dangerous, frenzied, mad, insane, desperate, ravening, frantic, wrathful, irate, rabid, virulent, fanatical, bestial, tigerish, barbarous, hard*, tough*, hard-boiled*; see also sense 2.

    Antonyms gentle*, tame, peaceful*.

  2. Said especially of actions and the weather

    boisterous, violent, vehement, threatening, severe, stormy, thunderous, howling, inclement, tumultuous, turbulent, uncontrolled, unbridled, unrestrained, raging, storming, blustering, cyclonic, blizzardy, torrential, of hurricane force, frightful, fearful, lowering, destructive, devastating, hellish, rip-roaring*; see also sense 1.

    Antonyms mild*, moderate, calm.

  3. Intense

    ardent, fervent, deep, acute; see intense.

See fierce in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


adjective
  1. Showing or suggesting a disposition to be violently destructive without scruple or restraint:

    barbarous, bestial, cruel, fell2, feral, ferocious, inhuman, savage, truculent, vicious, wolfish. See kind
  2. So intense as to cause extreme suffering:

    cruel, ferocious, savage, vicious. See help, kind
  3. Intensely violent in sustained velocity:

    furious, heavy, high, strong. See strong
  4. Extreme in degree, strength, or effect:

    desperate, furious, intense, terrible, vehement, violent. See big, strong
  5. Intensely sustained, especially in activity:

    concentrated, heavy, heightened, intense, intensive. See strong

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