ferocious

English

Etymology

From Latin ferox ‎(“wild, bold, savage, fierce”), from ferus ‎(“wild, savage, fierce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈɹəʊʃəs/
• Rhymes: -əʊʃəs

Adjective

ferocious ‎(comparative more ferocious, superlative most ferocious)

1. Marked by extreme and violent energy.
   • 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.

2. Extreme or intense.

Synonyms

• fierce

Derived terms

• ferociously

Related terms

• ferity
• ferocity
• fierce
• feral

Translations

Marked by extreme and violent energy

• Armenian: վայրագ (hy) ‎(vayrag)
• Bulgarian: див (bg) ‎(div), свиреп (bg) ‎(svirep)
• Catalan: ferotge
• Chamicuro: pchajtoki
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 猖 (zh) ‎(chāng)

• Dutch: woest (nl), wild (nl)
• Esperanto: feroca
• Finnish: julma (fi), raivokas, raivopäinen
• French: féroce (fr) m, f

• German: wild (de), brutal (de)
• Greek: άγριος (el) m ‎(ágrios)
• Hungarian: kegyetlen (hu)
• Ido: feroca (io)
• Italian: feroce (it)
• Persian: سبع (fa) ‎(sabo')
• Polish: brutalny (pl) m, bestialski (pl) m, okrutny (pl) m
• Portuguese: feroz (pt)
• Russian: свире́пый (ru) m ‎(svirépyj), жесто́кий (ru) ‎(žestókij)
• Spanish: feroz (es)
• Swedish: vild (sv), vildsynt

External links

• ferocious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• ferocious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• ferocious at OneLook Dictionary Search