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Great, or greater than normal, in intensity
Comparative for highly violent or brutal in nature
“Aside from occasional disruptions, the competitiveness and resulting ferocious gang wars became a thing of the past.”
Comparative for savage or feral in nature
“The animal is a most ferocious and savage-looking one.”
Comparative for extreme or very great in amount, level or degree
“The ferocious cost-cutting will inevitably have serious implications for airline safety.”
Comparative for characterized by fierce, extreme, or violent energy or force
“It was going to get colder very quickly now, and there would be ferocious storms.”
Comparative for characterized, or marked, by much busy (or stressful) activity
“So, too, the reckless proliferation of funds, and the sometimes ferocious trading of stocks within those funds.”
Comparative for hostile or forbidding in nature
“There's something dark and ferocious out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die.”
Comparative for characterized by great anger or rage
“In a ferocious fit of rage, Stalking Wolf plunges his lance into Yellow Hawk's chest and lets out a bloodthirsty war whoop.”
Comparative for characterized by a sullen or forbidding appearance or mood
“Jaime was in a ferocious mood, which was not improved by his natural dislike of getting drenched to the skin.”
Comparative for harshly sarcastic or satirical in nature
Comparative for defiantly aggressive, hostile or antagonistic
Comparative for painful or unpleasant to accept or contemplate
Comparative for having or showing passion in the pursuit of a goal
Comparative for very severe or serious
Comparative for requiring great effort or exertion
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