'Fierce' definitions:
Definition of 'fierce'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: ferocious, fierce, furious, savage]
adjective
Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" [syn: fierce, tearing, vehement, violent, trigger-happy]
adjective
Ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage" [syn: cutthroat, fierce, bowelless]
adjective
Violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: boisterous, fierce, rough]
Definition of 'Fierce'
From: GCIDE
- Fierce \Fierce\, a. [Compar. Fiercer; superl. Fiercest.] [OE. fers, fiers, OF. fier, nom. fiers, fierce, savage, cruel, F. fier proud, from L. ferus wild, savage, cruel; perh. akin to E. bear the animal. Cf. Feral, Ferocity.]
- 1. Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind. [1913 Webster]
- His fierce thunder drove us to the deep. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious. "A fierce whisper." --Dickens. "A fierce tyrant." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Thou huntest me as a fierce lion. --Job. x. 16. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
- Syn: Ferocious; savage; cruel; vehement; impetuous; barbarous; fell. See Ferocious. -- {Fierce"ly}, adv. -- {Fierce"ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fierce'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- acid,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- acute,
- aggressive,
- amok,
- angry,
- animal,
- antagonistic,
- anthropophagous,
- astringent,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- battling,
- beastly,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- bestial,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- brutal,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- cannibalistic,
- carried away,
- caustic,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- combative,
- concentrated,
- contentious,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- cutting,
- dangerous,
- delirious,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- desperate,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- dire,
- distracted,
- double-edged,
- Draconian,
- drastic,
- dreadful,
- ecstatic,
- edged,
- enemy,
- enraged,
- enraptured,
- escharotic,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- exquisite,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferine,
- ferocious,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fiery,
- fighting,
- fighting mad,
- frantic,
- frenzied,
- full of fight,
- fulminating,
- fuming,
- furious,
- great,
- grim,
- haggard,
- harsh,
- hawkish,
- hellish,
- hog-wild,
- homicidal,
- hopping mad,
- hostile,
- hotheaded,
- howling,
- hysterical,
- immoderate,
- impetuous,
- in a rage,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- incisive,
- infernal,
- infuriate,
- infuriated,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- inimical,
- inordinate,
- intemperate,
- intense,
- intoxicated,
- intractable,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- keen,
- kill-crazy,
- mad,
- maddened,
- madding,
- malign,
- malignant,
- maniac,
- martial,
- menacing,
- merciless,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- murderous,
- noncivilized,
- offensive,
- orgasmic,
- orgiastic,
- outrageous,
- passionate,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- pitiless,
- poignant,
- possessed,
- pugnacious,
- quarrelsome,
- rabid,
- racking,
- raging,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- raving,
- raving mad,
- ravished,
- rigorous,
- roaring,
- roaring mad,
- rough,
- running mad,
- ruthless,
- saber-rattling,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- scathing,
- scrappy,
- severe,
- sharkish,
- sharp,
- simmering,
- slavering,
- soldierlike,
- soldierly,
- splitting,
- stabbing,
- stinging,
- storming,
- stormy,
- strident,
- stringent,
- subhuman,
- superlative,
- supreme,
- tameless,
- tart,
- Tartarean,
- tempestuous,
- terrible,
- threatening,
- tigerish,
- tornadic,
- tough,
- transcendent,
- transported,
- trenchant,
- trigger-happy,
- truculent,
- tumultuous,
- turbulent,
- unchristian,
- uncivilized,
- unconscionable,
- uncontrollable,
- unfriendly,
- ungentle,
- unhuman,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceable,
- unpeaceful,
- untamed,
- vehement,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- volcanic,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- wolfish