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fierce
adjective as in violent, menacing
Strongest matches
angry, bold, brutal, cutthroat, dangerous, ferocious, fiery, furious, intense, murderous, passionate, powerful, raging, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, terrible, vehement, vicious
Weak matches
animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, brutish, cruel, enraged, fell, feral, flipped, frightening, horrible, howling, impetuous, infuriated, malevolent, malign, primitive, raving, tempestuous, threatening, tigerish, truculent, tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, venomous, wild
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Example Sentences
Throughout the fifties, in city after city, fluoridation became the subject of fierce debate.
They had also come “to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.”
The organizers certainly appeared worried about plunging into the notoriously fierce world of London fashion and media.
“The competition is very fierce, we have very good competitors,” he told the Daily Beast.
I so loved the fierce bodily contact of football that I suppose my enthusiasm made up somewhat for my lack of size.
To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.
The beauty, the mystery,—this fierce sunshine or something—stir——' She hesitated for a fraction of a second.
He breathed fierce and honest anathema on the heads of the bowelless fiends who had abandoned the babe to its doom.
It was a very dangerous one, too, and sometimes lives were sacrificed in his efforts to capture or to kill this fierce wild beast.
This harmless image of a fierce beast Yung Pak would pull about the floor with a string by the hour.
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On this page you'll find 161 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fierce, such as: angry, bold, brutal, cutthroat, dangerous, and ferocious.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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