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ferocious 音标拼音: [fɚ'oʃəs] a. 残忍的,凶猛的 残忍的,凶猛的 ferocious adj 1: marked by extreme and violent energy; " a ferocious beating"; " fierce fighting"; " a furious battle" [ synonym: { ferocious}, { fierce}, { furious}, { savage}] Ferocious \ Fe* ro" cious\, a. [ L. ferox, - ocis, fierce: cf. F. f[' e] roce. See { Ferocity}.] Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion. [ 1913 Webster] The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. -- Lowth. Syn: { Ferocious}, { Fierce}, { Savage}, { Barbarous}. Usage: When these words are applied to human feelings or conduct, ferocious describes the disposition; fierce, the haste and violence of an act; barbarous, the coarseness and brutality by which it was marked; savage, the cruel and unfeeling spirit which it showed. A man is ferocious in his temper, fierce in his actions, barbarous in the manner of carrying out his purposes, savage in the spirit and feelings expressed in his words or deeds. -- { Fe* ro" cious* ly}, adv. -- { Fe* ro" cious* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 148 Moby Thesaurus words for " ferocious": Draconian, Tartarean, abandoned, aggressive, amok, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bellowing, berserk, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody- minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, carried away, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, cruel, cruel- hearted, delirious, demoniac, demoniacal, destructive, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, distracted, ecstatic, enemy, enraptured, fell, feral, ferine, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, fighting, frantic, frenzied, full of fight, fulminating, furious, grim, haggard, hawkish, hellish, hog- wild, hostile, howling, hysterical, implacable, in a transport, in hysterics, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, intoxicated, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, kill- crazy, mad, madding, malign, malignant, maniac, martial, merciless, militant, militaristic, military, monstrous, murderous, noncivilized, offensive, orgasmic, orgiastic, pitiless, possessed, predatory, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, raving, ravished, relentless, roaring, running mad, ruthless, saber- rattling, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scrappy, sharkish, slavering, soldierlike, soldierly, storming, subhuman, tameless, transported, trigger- happy, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, uncontrollable, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, untamed, vicious, violent, voracious, warlike, warmongering, warring, wild, wild- eyed, wild- looking, wolfish |
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