fierce

Meaning

Adj

1. Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage.
2. Resolute or strenuously active.
3. Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
4. (slang) Excellent, very good.
5. (slang) Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.

Adv

Extremely; very.

Synonyms

savage

ferocious

cruel

wild

violent

brutal

furious

terrible

grim

sharp

angry

😠

brave

strong

severe

merciless

vicious

vehement

barbarous

rapacious

inhuman

atrocious

intense

bloodthirsty

courageous

ruthless

truculent

incisive

uncivilized

unkind

wrathful

formidable

barbarian

harsh

dangerous

feral

hot

🥵

wicked

tremendous

terrific

dreadful

amazing

ardent

awful

bitter

boisterous

burning

cutthroat

absurd

evil

fiery

hard

harmful

horrible

mad

mean

powerful

rough

rude

stormy

tearing

tigerish

trigger-happy

untamed

vigorous

bowelless

impetuous

ferine

infuriated

fell

fearsome

intrepid

inveterate

keen

lively

loud

lupin

lupine

wrathy

malicious

frightfully violent

eager

miscreant

outrageous

overbearing

passionate

piercing

plenty

FROISS

predatory

proud

pugnacious

rabid

destructive

ravening

ravenous

resolute

restless

tigrish

severe cold

deafening

sassy

cutting

cursed

crueuses batailles

sharp point

si perilleuses

spiteful

startling

blood-and-guts

strict

cross

stubborn

be violent

termagant

condemned

cold-blooded

untractable

torrential

torrid

cold

🥶

attack dog

brisk

breakneck

unfriendly

blazing

unmerciful

untame

black

very angry

become

bloodandguts

villainous

badman

warlike

frenetic

frenzied

frightening

frantic

grievous

flaming

gruesome

bad

👎

bacchanalian

fiendish

having

heartless

aggressive

fervent

ill-natured

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɪəs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: fers

In summary

From Middle English fers, fiers, borrowed from Old French fers (“wild", "ferocious”), nominative of fer, from Latin ferus (“wild", "untamed”).