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| Main Entry: | ferocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, barbaric |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful, grim, implacable, inhuman, lupine, merciless, murderous, pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravenous, relentless, ruthless, savage, truculent, unmerciful, unrestrained, untamed, vehement, vicious, voracious, wild, brutish, inhumane, ravening, sanguinary, tigerish, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender |
| Main Entry: | angry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being mad, often extremely mad |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, bitter, choleric, cross, displeased, enraged, ferocious, fierce, fiery, furious, hateful, heated, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, impassioned, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriated, irascible, irate, irritable, irritated, offended, provoked, raging, sore, sulky, sullen, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uptight, wrathful, affronted, antagonized, chafed, convulsed, exacerbated, exasperated, fuming, galled, ireful, maddened, nettled, outraged, piqued, resentful, riled, splenetic, storming, vexed |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, content, happy, joyful, joyous |
| Main Entry: | barbarous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, coarse, cruel, ferocious, heartless, ignorant, inhuman, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unsophisticated, vicious, vulgar, wicked, wild, brutish, inhumane, wolfish |
| Notes: | barbaric pertains to crudeness and uncivility (based on Greek barbaros 'foreign'); barbarous pertains to cruelty, harshness, and immorality |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | cruel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vicious, pitiless; causing pain |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarous, bestial, bitter, bloodthirsty, brutal, callous, cold-blooded, degenerate, depraved, evil, excruciating, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, harsh, hateful, heartless, hellish, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, malevolent, merciless, monstrous, painful, pernicious, poignant, relentless, revengeful, ruthless, sadistic, sinful, spiteful, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unnatural, unrelenting, vengeful, vicious, virulent, wicked, brutish, demoniac, hard-hearted, inhumane, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | charitable, compassionate, considerate, feeling, gentle, kind, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, uncruel |
| Main Entry: | cutthroat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruthless |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, bloodthirsty, cruel, dog-eat-dog*, ferocious, merciless, pitiless, relentless, savage, unprincipled, vicious, hard as nails |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untamed |
| Synonyms: | animal, brutal, ferocious, fierce, raging, savage, uncultivated, wild, tameless, undomesticated |
| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, cruel, cutthroat*, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, frightening, furious, horrible, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild, brutish, flipped, howling, tigerish |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fighting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive, warlike |
| Synonyms: | angry, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, boxing, combative, contentious, determined, disputatious, fencing, ferocious, hostile, martial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, resolute, truculent, unbeatable, up in arms*, battling, brawling, contending, disputative, hawkish, jingoistic, jousting, militaristic, ready to fight, scrappy, skirmishing, sparring, tilting, under arms, warmongering, wrestling |
| Antonyms: | peaceloving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance |
| Synonyms: | austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy*, harsh, hideous, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, ominous, relentless, resolute, ruthless, severe, shocking, sinister, somber, sour, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding, crabbed, glowering, horrid, scowling, splenetic |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, sunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inhuman/inhumane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | animal, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cruel, devilish, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hateful, heartless, implacable, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unsympathetic, vicious, uncompassionate |
| Antonyms: | animate, human/humane, sensate |
| Main Entry: | murderous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult |
| Synonyms: | arduous, brutal, criminal, cruel, dangerous, deadly, destroying, destructive, devastating, fell, ferocious, harrowing, hellish, killing, lethal, ruinous, savage, strenuous, unpleasant, exhausting, sapping |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | rapacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | plundering |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, ferocious, furious, greedy, murderous, predatory, preying, ravenous, savage, voracious, marauding, ravening |
| Main Entry: | ravenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, covetous, devouring, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, starved, starving, voracious, could eat a horse, edacious, insatiate, ravening, starved to death, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | ruthless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mean, heartless |
| Synonyms: | adamant, barbarous, brutal, callous, cold, cold-blooded, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog*, feral, ferocious, fierce, grim, hard, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, killer, malevolent, merciless, mortal, obdurate, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, revengeful, sadistic, savage, severe, stern, stony, surly, unfeeling, unforgiving, unmerciful, unrelenting, unsympathetic, unyielding, vicious, vindictive, hard-hearted, ironfisted, rancorous, unappeasable, without pity |
| Antonyms: | compassionate, considerate, gentle, giving, kind, nice, sympathetic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | truculent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | belligerent, hateful |
| Synonyms: | abusive, aggressive, antagonistic, bad-tempered, barbarous, bellicose, brutal, bullying, caustic, combative, contentious, cross, defiant, ferocious, fierce, frightening, harsh, hostile, inhuman, intimidating, invective, mean, militant, mordant, obstreperous, opprobrious, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rude, savage, scathing, scurrilous, sharp, sullen, terrifying, trenchant, violent, browbeating, contumelious, cowing, inhumane, mordacious, scrappy, terrorizing, vituperative, vituperous |
| Antonyms: | cooperative, gentle, mild, nice, tame |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | untamed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wild |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, feral, ferocious, fierce, native, overgrown, overrun, rampant, savage, uncivilized, uncontrollable, uncultivated, uninhabited, unmanageable, vicious, undomesticated |
| Main Entry: | inhuman |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | animal |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cruel, devilish, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hateful, heartless, implacable, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, savage, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unsympathetic, vicious, inhumane, uncompassionate, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | human |
| Main Entry: | man-eating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cannibal |
| Synonyms: | carnivorous, ferocious, murderous, creophagous |
| Main Entry: | brutal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, remorseless |
| Synonyms: | barbarous, bloodthirsty, callous, ferocious, gruff, hard, harsh, heartless, impolite, inhuman, insensitive, merciless, pitiless, remorseless, rough, rude, ruthless, savage, severe, uncivil, uncivilized, unfeeling, unmannerly, unmerciful, vicious |
| Antonyms: | generous, humane, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | relentless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, merciless |
| Synonyms: | adamant, bound, bound and determined, determined, dogged, ferocious, fierce, grim, hard, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inflexible, inhuman, mortal, obdurate, pitiless, remorseless, rigid, rigorous, ruthless, single-minded, stiff, strict, stringent, unbending, uncompromising, unflinching, unforgiving, unrelenting, unyielding, vindictive, dead set on, go for broke, hang in, hang-tough, stop at nothing, unappeasable, undeviating, unstoppable |
| Antonyms: | kind, merciful, sympathetic, understanding |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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