ferocious

Definition

Marked by extreme and violent energy.

Etymology

Taken from Latin ferōx (“wild, bold, savage, fierce”) + -ous.

Example Sentences

• "But it seemed to me that there were few faces like his, with the ferocious profile that brought to mind the Latin word rapax or one of Rouault's crazed death-dealing arbitrary kings."
• "Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off."
• ""My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard.""

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