Synonyms:
ferocious, fierce, furious, savage
Meaning: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
Usage examples
The firelight seemed to make the ferocious faces of the tribe still more hideous.
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
The most ferocious carnivores are found in the mountains, and the most venomous serpents haunt the lowlands.
The beast was dark blue in color and his face was not fierce nor ferocious in expression, but rather good-humored and droll.
The prospect of this awful fate so frightened the officers that they drew their swords and rushed upon Files, who stood beside Shaggy, in a truly ferocious manner.
It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq.
It was not the torrent of loud imprecation that Dick had heard in Jackson, but subdued, and all the more fierce because it was so like the ferocious whine of a powerful and hurt wild animal.
After three or four attempts of the same kind, the dog became provoked, gave a sudden ferocious growl, bit off the delinquent's head, and then quietly finished his meal, without bestowing any further attention on his victim.
They were like the gar-pike in our Western rivers, only much larger,--as big as a stove-pipe,--and with a crust as hard as a turtle's shell. Then there came sharks, of strange forms, savage and ferocious, with teeth like bowie-knives.
Nevertheless, could anything be more cruel than to abandon a man in a desert country, without arms and without provisions, to put him on shore in a country peopled by ferocious cannibals, prepared to make a repast on his flesh; what was it but condemning him to a horrible death?