FEROCIOUS, FEROCIOUSLY, FEROCITY
ADJECTIVES
► EFFEROUS extremely wild, fierce, or savage; cruel, ferocious, violent → 1614 obs.
► FAROUCHIE savage, cruel, ferocious → 1825 Sc. obs.
► FEROCIENT ferocious, fierce, savage → 1654 obs.
► SAVAGE AS A MEAT AXE very angry, and violent, exceedingly savage, ferocious → 1834 Amer. dial.
ADVERBS
► MANKINDLY cruelly, ferociously → 1606 obs.
NOUNS
► ACHARNEMENT eagerness for blood, bloodthirsty fury, ferocity → 1816
► FERITY the quality of being wild or savage; brutishness; wildness; fierceness; ferocity; barbarous or savage cruelty; of plants: wildness, uncultivated condition → c1534
► TIGERNESS ferocity → 1535 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► HE-SHARK a ferocious man → 1846 US sl.
► MAN-EATER a person who is ferocious, predatory, or the like → 1884 Amer. sl.
► MAN-TIGER a man resembling a tiger in ferocity → a1652
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