Definition of Ferocious

Ferocious

Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.

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Ferocious Quotations

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
Voltaire

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.
Richard Branson

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Ovid

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming.
Reed Hastings

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.
Suzanne Fields

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.
Armistead Maupin

I own and operate a ferocious ego.
Bill Moyers

I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
Karen Black

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.
Edward Everett

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
John Lothrop Motley

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
Hamlin Garland

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Ferocious Translations

ferocious in Norwegian is glupsk, vill
ferocious in Swedish is rovlysten, ilsken

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