"ferocious" meaning in English

See ferocious in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /fəˈɹəʊʃəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ferocious.wav Forms: more ferocious [comparative], most ferocious [superlative]
Rhymes: -əʊʃəs Etymology: Taken from Latin ferōx (“wild, bold, savage, fierce”) + -ous. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|ferōx||wild, bold, savage, fierce}} Latin ferōx (“wild, bold, savage, fierce”), {{suffix|en||-ous}} + -ous Head templates: {{en-adj}} ferocious (comparative more ferocious, superlative most ferocious)
  1. Marked by extreme and violent energy. Translations (Marked by extreme and violent energy): شَرِس (šaris) (Arabic), վայրագ (vayrag) (Armenian), şiddətli (Azerbaijani), dəhşətli (Azerbaijani), лю́ты (ljúty) (Belarusian), див (div) (Bulgarian), свиреп (svirep) (Bulgarian), ferotge (Catalan), pchajtoki (Chamicuro), (chāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 兇猛 (Chinese Mandarin), 凶猛 (xiōngměng) (Chinese Mandarin), woest (Dutch), wild (Dutch), heftig (Dutch), feroca (Esperanto), julma (Finnish), raivokas (Finnish), raivopäinen (Finnish), féroce (French), wild (German), brutal (German), grausam (German), άγριος (ágrios) (Greek), kegyetlen (Hungarian), feroca (Ido), feroce (Italian), efferato (Italian), abominevole (Italian), odioso (Italian), 猛々しい (takedakeshii) (alt: たけだけしい) (Japanese), тағы (tağy) (Kazakh), жабайы (jabaiy) (Kazakh), мейірімсіз (meiırımsız) (Kazakh), қатал (qatal) (Kazakh), 사납다 (sanapda) (Korean), ferox (Latin), trux (Latin), див (div) (Macedonian), сви́реп (svírep) (Macedonian), grusom (Norwegian Bokmål), vill (Norwegian Bokmål), heftig (Norwegian Bokmål), سبع (sabo') (Persian), grausom (Plautdietsch), brutalny (Polish), bestialski (Polish), okrutny (Polish), feroz (Portuguese), свире́пый (svirépyj) (Russian), жесто́кий (žestókij) (Russian), feroz (Spanish), vild (Swedish), vildsint (Swedish), zalim (Turkish), лю́тий (ljútyj) (Ukrainian), brochwyllt (Welsh)
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  2. Extreme or intense.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fierce Derived forms: ferociously Related terms: ferity, ferocity, fierce, feral
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    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Chamicuro translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
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    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Kazakh translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Persian translations",
    "Terms with Plautdietsch translations",
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    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
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          "text": "\"My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard.\"",
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      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "شَرِس"
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      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "վայրագ"
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      "code": "az",
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      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "şiddətli"
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      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
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      "code": "be",
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      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "лю́ты"
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      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "див"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
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      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "свиреп"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "ferotge"
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      "lang": "Chamicuro",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "pchajtoki"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chāng",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "猖"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "兇猛"
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    {
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiōngměng",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "凶猛"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "woest"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "wild"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "heftig"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "feroca"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "julma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "raivokas"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "raivopäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "féroce"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "wild"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "brutal"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "grausam"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ágrios",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "άγριος"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "kegyetlen"
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      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "feroca"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "feroce"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "efferato"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "abominevole"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "odioso"
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      "alt": "たけだけしい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "takedakeshii",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "猛々しい"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "tağy",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "тағы"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "jabaiy",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "жабайы"
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    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "meiırımsız",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "мейірімсіз"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "qatal",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "қатал"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sanapda",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "사납다"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "ferox"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "trux"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "div",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "див"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "svírep",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "сви́реп"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "grusom"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "vill"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "heftig"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "sabo'",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "سبع"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "grausom"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "brutalny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "bestialski"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "okrutny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "feroz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svirépyj",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "свире́пый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "žestókij",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "жесто́кий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "feroz"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "vild"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "vildsint"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "zalim"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ljútyj",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "лю́тий"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "Marked by extreme and violent energy",
      "word": "brochwyllt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ferocious"
}

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