Feral

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
feral
    adj 1: wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs" [syn: {feral},
           {ferine}, {savage}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Feral \Fe"ral\, a. [L. feralis, belonging to the dead.]
   Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous. [R.] "Feral accidents."
   --Burton.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
feral \fe"ral\, a. [L. ferus. See {Fierce}.] (Bot. & Zool.)
   Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts,
   birds, and plants.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "feral":
      Draconian, Tartarean, abandoned, amok, animal, anthropophagous,
      atrocious, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bellowing,
      berserk, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal,
      brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, carried away, cinerary,
      cruel, cruel-hearted, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly,
      delirious, demoniac, demoniacal, destructive, devilish, diabolic,
      dirgelike, dismal, distracted, ecstatic, enraptured, epitaphic,
      exequial, fatal, fell, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike,
      fierce, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, funebrial, funebrious,
      funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, furious, haggard, hellish,
      hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics,
      infernal, inhuman, inhumane, internecine, intoxicated, kill-crazy,
      killing, lethal, mad, madding, malign, malignant, maniac,
      merciless, mortal, mortuary, mournful, murderous, necrological,
      noncivilized, obituary, obsequial, orgasmic, orgiastic, pernicious,
      pitiless, possessed, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, raving,
      ravished, roaring, running mad, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary,
      sanguineous, satanic, savage, sepulchral, sharkish, slavering,
      storming, subhuman, swinish, tameless, transported, truculent,
      unchristian, uncivilized, uncontrollable, ungentle, unhuman,
      untamed, vicious, violent, virulent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking,
      wolfish

    

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