Fierce

fierce
    adj 1: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious
           beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn:
           {ferocious}, {fierce}, {furious}, {savage}]
    2: marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions;
       inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a
       tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" [syn:
       {fierce}, {tearing}, {vehement}, {violent}, {trigger-happy}]
    3: ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless
       readiness to take advantage" [syn: {cutthroat}, {fierce},
       {bowelless}]
    4: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and
       waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra
       Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: {boisterous},
       {fierce}, {rough}]
    

Fierce \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.
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            His fierce thunder drove us to the deep. --Milton.
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   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.
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            The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear. --Milton.
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            Thou huntest me as a fierce lion.     --Job. x. 16.
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   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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227 Moby Thesaurus words for "fierce":
      Draconian, Tartarean, abandoned, acid, acidulous, acrid,
      acrimonious, acute, aggressive, amok, angry, animal, antagonistic,
      anthropophagous, astringent, atrocious, awful, barbaric, barbarous,
      battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bellowing, berserk,
      bestial, biting, bitter, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded,
      brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, carried away,
      caustic, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, concentrated,
      contentious, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutting, dangerous, delirious,
      demoniac, demoniacal, desperate, devilish, diabolic, dire,
      distracted, double-edged, drastic, dreadful, ecstatic, edged,
      enemy, enraged, enraptured, escharotic, excessive, exorbitant,
      exquisite, extravagant, extreme, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious,
      fiendish, fiendlike, fiery, fighting, fighting mad, frantic,
      frenzied, full of fight, fulminating, fuming, furious, great, grim,
      haggard, harsh, hawkish, hellish, hog-wild, homicidal, hopping mad,
      hostile, hotheaded, howling, hysterical, immoderate, impetuous,
      in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, incisive, infernal,
      infuriate, infuriated, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, inordinate,
      intemperate, intense, intoxicated, intractable, jingo, jingoish,
      jingoist, jingoistic, keen, kill-crazy, mad, maddened, madding,
      malign, malignant, maniac, martial, menacing, merciless, militant,
      militaristic, military, mordacious, mordant, murderous,
      noncivilized, offensive, orgasmic, orgiastic, outrageous,
      passionate, penetrating, piercing, pitiless, poignant, possessed,
      pugnacious, quarrelsome, rabid, racking, raging, ramping, ranting,
      raving, raving mad, ravished, rigorous, roaring, roaring mad,
      rough, running mad, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary,
      sanguineous, satanic, savage, scathing, scrappy, severe, sharkish,
      sharp, simmering, slavering, soldierlike, soldierly, splitting,
      stabbing, stinging, storming, stormy, strident, stringent,
      subhuman, superlative, supreme, tameless, tart, tempestuous,
      terrible, threatening, tigerish, tornadic, tough, transcendent,
      transported, trenchant, trigger-happy, truculent, tumultuous,
      turbulent, unchristian, uncivilized, unconscionable,
      uncontrollable, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unpacific,
      unpeaceable, unpeaceful, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious,
      violent, virulent, vitriolic, volcanic, warlike, warmongering,
      warring, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, wolfish