ferocious
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Taken from Latin ferōx (“wild, bold, savage, fierce”) + -ous.
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ferocious (comparative more ferocious, superlative most ferocious)
- Marked by extreme and violent energy.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 376:
- But it seemed to me that there were few faces like his, with the ferocious profile that brought to mind the Latin word rapax or one of Rouault's crazed death-dealing arbitrary kings.
- 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.
- 2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47:
- "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."
- Extreme or intense.
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Marked by extreme and violent energy
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Further reading[edit]
- “ferocious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “ferocious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “ferocious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.