Meaning of FIERCE
| Pronunciation: | | feers
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- [adj] violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
- [adj] ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage"
- [adj] marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions"
- [adj] marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
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| | Synonyms: | | boisterous, bowelless, cutthroat, ferocious, furious, intense, merciless, rough, savage, stormy, tearing, trigger-happy, unmerciful, vehement, violent |
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| | Definition: | | Fierce
In her second memoir, a painter writes about some of the staggering difficulties of a tumultuous life, including episodes of violence in her dirt-poor family, her father`s drinking problem, her own attraction to destructive and abusive men, and--underlying everything--her determination to transcend it all by becoming an artist and transforming her troubled past into the material of her art. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fierce\, a. [Compar. {Fiercer}; superl. {Fiercest}.]
[OE. fers, fiers, OF. fier, nom. fiers, fierce, savage,
cruel, F. fier proud, from L. ferus wild, savage, cruel;
perh. akin to E. bear the animal. Cf. {Feral}, {Ferocity}.]
1. Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce
wind.
His fierce thunder drove us to the deep. --Milton.
2. Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or
injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious. ``A
fierce whisper.'' --Dickens. ``A fierce tyrant.'' --Pope.
The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear. --Milton.
Thou huntest me as a fierce lion. --Job. x. 16.
3. Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
Syn: Ferocious; savage; cruel; vehement; impetuous;
barbarous; fell. See {Ferocious}. -- {Fierce"ly}, adv.
-- {Fierce"ness}, n.
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