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| Main Entry: |
ferocity
 [fuh-ros-i-tee] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fierceness |
| Synonyms: | barbarity, bloodthirstiness, brutality, cruelty, ferociousness, murderousness, savagery, viciousness, violence, wildness |
| Main Entry: | cruelty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brutality, harshness |
| Synonyms: | animality, barbarism, barbarity, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, inhumanity, insensibility, insensitiveness, malice, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, persecution, rancor, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, severity, spite, spitefulness, torture, truculence, unfeelingness, unkindness, venom, viciousness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | charity, compassion, consideration, feeling, gentility, kindness, mercy, niceness, thoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | fury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger, wrath |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, asperity, boiling point, conniption, energy, ferocity, fierceness, fire, flare-up, force, frenzy, furor, impetuosity, indignation, intensity, ire, madness, might, passion, power, rabidity, rage, rampancy, rise, savagery, severity, slow burn, sore, stew, storm*, tempestuousness, turbulence, vehemence, violence |
| Notes: | ire suggests greater intensity than anger, rage suggests loss of self-control, and fury is destructive rage verging on madness |
| Antonyms: | calm, happiness, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- It follows with a ferocity that even murderers seldom feel.
- The rise in problem loans has more to do with regulatory ferocity than mounting bad debts.
- Ferocity on this scale offers little in the way of second chances to those that make a mistake.
| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger, passion |
| Synonyms: | agitation, ardor, desire, earnestness, excitement, ferocity, fervor, fever, fury, impetuosity, intensity, rage, vehemence, violence, warmth, zeal |
| Antonyms: | coolness, disinterest, frigidity |
| Main Entry: | inhumanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of compassion |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarism, bloodthirstiness, brutality, brutishness, callousness, cold-bloodedness, cruelty, ferocity, heartlessness, maliciousness, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness, violence |
| Main Entry: | intensity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passion, force |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, anxiety, ardor, concentration, deepness, depth, earnestness, emotion, emphasis, energy, excess, excitement, extreme, extremity, fanaticism, ferment, ferociousness, ferocity, fervency, fervor, fierceness, fire, force, forcefulness, fury, high pitch, intenseness, keenness, magnitude, might, nervousness, potency, power, severity, sharpness, strain, strength, tenseness, tension, vehemence, vigor, violence, volume, weightiness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, dullness, inactivity, laziness, lethargy, moderation |
| Main Entry: | rage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme anger |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, agitation, animosity, apoplexy, asperity, bitterness, blowup, bluster, choler, convulsion, dander, eruption, exasperation, excitement, explosion, ferment, ferocity, fireworks, frenzy, furor, fury, gall, heat*, hemorrhage, huff, hysterics, indignation, ire, irritation, madness, mania, obsession, outburst, paroxysm, passion, rampage, raving, resentment, spasm, spleen, squall, storm, tantrum, temper, umbrage, uproar, upset, vehemence, violence, wingding, wrath |
| Antonyms: | glee, happiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | violence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme force, intensity |
| Synonyms: | abandon, acuteness, assault, attack, bestiality, bloodshed, blowup, brutality, brute force, clash, coercion, compulsion, confusion, constraint, cruelty, destructiveness, disorder, disturbance, duress, ferocity, fervor, fierceness, fighting, flap, foul play, frenzy, fury, fuss, harshness, murderousness, onslaught, passion, power, raging, rampage, roughness, ruckus, rumble, savagery, severity, sharpness, storm, storminess, struggle, terrorism, tumult, turbulence, uproar, vehemence, wildness |
| Antonyms: | passivity, peace, peacefulness |
| Main Entry: | irateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fury |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, asperity, boiling point, conniption, energy, ferocity, fierceness, fire, flare-up, force, frenzy, furor, impetuosity, indignation, intensity, ire, madness, might, passion, power, rabidity, rage, rampancy, rise, savagery, severity, slow burn, sore, stew, storm*, tempestuousness, turbulence, vehemence, violence, wrath, wrathfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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