| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
Synonyms: |
angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, brutish, cruel, cutthroat, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, flipped, frightening, furious, horrible, howling, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, tigerish, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild |
Antonyms: |
calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
| Main Entry: | acute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, intense |
Synonyms: |
cutting, distressing, excruciating, exquisite, fierce, keen, overpowering, overwhelming, piercing, poignant, powerful, racking, severe, sharp, shooting, stabbing, sudden, violent |
| Notes: | acute is used for a sudden onset and short duration; chronic is for conditions that are slow to develop and of long duration acute is an angle of less than 90 degrees; obtuse is one of more than 90 degrees chronic is contrasted with acute as chronic pain persists over a longer period of time than acute pain and is resistant to most medical treatments |
| Main Entry: | agonizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult and painful, suffering |
Synonyms: |
disturbing, excruciating, extreme, fierce, harrowing, intense, racking, struggling, tearing, tormenting, tortuous, torturing, vehement, violent |
| Main Entry: | angry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being mad, often extremely mad |
Synonyms: |
affronted, annoyed, antagonized, bitter, chafed, choleric, convulsed, cross, displeased, enraged, exacerbated, exasperated, ferocious, fierce, fiery, fuming, furious, galled, hateful, heated, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, impassioned, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriated, irascible, irate, ireful, irritable, irritated, maddened, nettled, offended, outraged, piqued, provoked, raging, resentful, riled, sore, splenetic, storming, sulky, sullen, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uptight, vexed, wrathful |
Antonyms: |
calm, collected, content, happy, joyful, joyous |
| Main Entry: | ardent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very enthusiastic |
Synonyms: |
agog, avid, blazing, burning, desirous, eager, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, horny*, hot*, hungry, impassioned, intense, keen, lovey-dovey, lusty, passionate, spirited, thirsty, vehement, warm, zealous |
Antonyms: |
cold, cold-blooded, cool, dispassionate, frigid, indifferent, lukewarm, unenthusiastic |
| Main Entry: | barbaric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
Synonyms: |
barbarian, barbarous, boorish, brutal, coarse, cruel, fierce, graceless, inhuman, lowbrow, primitive, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, vulgar, wild |
| Main Entry: | belligerent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, argumentative |
Synonyms: |
aggressive, antagonistic, ardent, at loggerheads, battling, bellicose, cantankerous, combative, contentious, fierce, fighting, flip, have a bone to pick, have chip on shoulder, have it in for, hostile, hot, hot-tempered, mean, militant, on the outs, ornery, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike |
Antonyms: |
cooperative, helping, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | bitter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hostile, nasty |
Synonyms: |
acrimonious, alienated, antagonistic, begrudging, biting, caustic, crabby, divided, embittered, estranged, fierce, freezing, hateful, intense, irreconcilable, morose, rancorous, resentful, sardonic, severe, sore, sour, stinging, sullen, virulent, vitriolic, with chip on shoulder |
Antonyms: |
agreeable, content, genial, kind, nice, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry |
Synonyms: |
enraged, fierce, furious, hostile, menacing, resentful, sour, sullen, threatening |
Antonyms: |
happy |
| Main Entry: | bloody |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard-fought |
Synonyms: |
bloodthirsty, cruel, cutthroat, decimating, ferocious, fierce, gory, grim, heavy, homicidal, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine, savage, slaughterous |