ferocious
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Etymology[edit]
Taken from Latin ferox (“wild, bold, savage, fierce”) (with the suffix -ous), from ferus (“wild, savage, fierce”).
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ferocious (comparative more ferocious, superlative most ferocious)
- 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.
- 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ferocious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- ferocious at OneLook Dictionary Search