Another word for ferocious
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Adjective
Showing or suggesting a disposition to be violently destructive without scruple or restraint
- Of or relating to wolves.
- Suggestive of or resembling a wolf.
- Fierce or rapacious.
- Mean-spirited or deliberately hurtful; malicious:
- Extremely violent or injurious; cruel:
- Marked by an aggressive disposition. Used chiefly of animals.
- Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent.
- Showing or expressing bitter opposition or hostility; aggressively defiant:
- Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
- Not domesticated or cultivated; wild:
- Not civilized; barbaric:
- Vicious or merciless; brutal:
- Lacking kindness, pity, or compassion; cruel or indifferent:
- Not suited for human needs:
- Not of ordinary human nature, form, or character:
- Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
- Characterized by or showing hostility:
- Extremely powerful or destructive:
- Existing in a wild or untamed state.
- Having returned to an untamed state from domestication.
- Of or suggestive of a wild animal; savage:
- To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down:
- To kill:
- To sew or finish (a seam) with the raw edges flattened, turned under, and stitched down.
- Disposed to inflict pain or suffering:
- Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress:
- Of or resembling a beast:
- Marked by brutality or depravity; brutal or depraved:
- Primitive or undeveloped in culture and customs; uncivilized.
- Lacking refinement or culture; coarse:
- Characterized by savagery; very cruel:
See also:So intense as to cause extreme suffering
- Mean-spirited or deliberately hurtful; malicious:
- Extremely violent or injurious; cruel:
- Marked by an aggressive disposition. Used chiefly of animals.
- Not domesticated or cultivated; wild:
- Not civilized; barbaric:
- Vicious or merciless; brutal:
- Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
- Characterized by or showing hostility:
- Extremely powerful or destructive:
- Disposed to inflict pain or suffering:
- Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress:
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Another word for ferocious
Modifier
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- Causing disgust or shock; horrifying.
- Causing fright; terrifying.
- Excessive; extreme:
- Causing or capable of causing fear:
- Fearful; timid.
- Having or exhibiting no mercy; merciless.
- Exceeding a normal or reasonable limit; excessive:
- Having no mercy; cruel.
- Having no pity; merciless.
- Of or characteristic of a brute.
- Crude in feeling or manner.
- Sensual; carnal.
- Capable of, guilty of, or intending murder:
- Characteristic of or giving rise to murder or bloodshed:
- Capable of devastating or overwhelming:
- Eager to cause or see the shedding of blood.
- Characterized by violence or carnage:
- Not controlled or held in check; immoderate:
- Uninhibited or unreserved:
- Causing or intending to cause damage, injury, or death, often when involving great force:
- Characterized by or displaying physical violence:
- Caused by unexpected force or injury rather than by natural causes:
- Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid:
- Extremely hungry or characterized by extreme hunger; voracious:
- Predatory or ferocious in predation:
- Eager for gratification or extremely desirous:
- Living or characterized by preying on other animals:
- Living or characterized by plundering, pillaging, or marauding.
- Living or characterized by the exploitation of others for personal gain:
- Accompanied by bloodshed.
- Eager for bloodshed; bloodthirsty.
- Consisting of blood.
- Disposed to inflict pain or suffering:
- Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress:
- Extremely ruthless or cruel.
- Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
- Harsh; unrelenting:
- To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down:
- To kill:
- To sew or finish (a seam) with the raw edges flattened, turned under, and stitched down.
- Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
- Primitive or undeveloped in culture and customs; uncivilized.
- Lacking refinement or culture; coarse:
- Characterized by savagery; very cruel:
- Existing in a wild or untamed state.
- Having returned to an untamed state from domestication.
- Of or suggestive of a wild animal; savage:
- Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
- Not inhabited or farmed:
- Uncivilized or barbarous.
- Not domesticated or cultivated; wild:
- Not civilized; barbaric:
- Vicious or merciless; brutal:
- Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
- Characterized by or showing hostility:
- Extremely powerful or destructive:
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