Ferocious

//fəˈɹoʊʃəs//

Synonyms for "ferocious" (169 found)

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Closest matches (34)

Strong matches (51)

Adjective(1 words)
fierce
Adjective(2 words)
fiercefurious

Related words (84)

Adjective(1 words)
savage

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Synonyms

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Related terms

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derived

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etymologically related_to

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related to

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similar

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Translations

60 translations across 35 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • شَرِس adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Armenian

1 entries
  • վայրագ adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Azerbaijani

2 entries
  • dəhşətli adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • şiddətli adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • лю́ты adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • див adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • свиреп adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Catalan

1 entries
  • ferotge adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Chamicuro

1 entries
  • pchajtoki adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 兇猛 /凶猛 adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • 猖 adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Danish

2 entries
  • glubsk adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • vild adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Dutch

3 entries
  • heftig adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • wild adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • woest adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • feroca adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Finnish

3 entries
  • julma adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • raivokas adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • raivopäinen adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

French

1 entries
  • féroce adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

German

3 entries
  • brutal adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • grausam adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • wild adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Greek

1 entries
  • άγριος adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • kegyetlen adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Ido

1 entries
  • feroca adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Italian

4 entries
  • abominevole adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • efferato adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • feroce adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • odioso adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 猛々しい adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Kazakh

4 entries
  • жабайы adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • мейірімсіз adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • тағы adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • қатал adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Korean

1 entries
  • 사납다 adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Latin

2 entries
  • ferox adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • trux adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • див adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • сви́реп adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Norwegian Bokmål

3 entries
  • grusom adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • heftig adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • vill adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries
  • آزولو adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • وحشی adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Persian

1 entries
  • سبع adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • grausom adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Polish

3 entries
  • bestialski adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • brutalny adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • okrutny adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • feroz adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Russian

2 entries
  • жесто́кий adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • свире́пый adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Spanish

1 entries
  • feroz adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Swedish

2 entries
  • vild adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)
  • vildsint adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Turkish

1 entries
  • zalim adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • лю́тий adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Welsh

1 entries
  • brochwyllt adj (Marked by extreme and violent energy)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

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Zipang The Power Polack, a ferocious Polish berserker, flailed around wildly, charging into enemy ranks crazily without armor.

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A tiger is a very ferocious kind of animal.

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Danny DeVito and ferocious lions and tigers are best avoided.

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Some lion Bruce Willis is chasing is a formidable animal, but is not ferocious.

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