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fierce
adjective as in violent, menacing
Strongest matches
angry, bold, brutal, cutthroat, dangerous, ferocious, fiery, furious, intense, murderous, passionate, powerful, raging, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, terrible, vehement, vicious
Weak matches
animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, brutish, cruel, enraged, fell, feral, flipped, frightening, horrible, howling, impetuous, infuriated, malevolent, malign, primitive, raving, tempestuous, threatening, tigerish, truculent, tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, venomous, wild
Example Sentences
Green is a fierce critic of President Trump, and called for the impeachment of the president during his first term in office.
The Los Angeles City Council rejected former Fire Chief Kristin Crowley’s bid to get her job back leading one of the nation’s largest fire departments, over fierce objections from the firefighters’ union.
Another of the coalition's members, the Act party, is also seeking to redefine the terms of New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, which has been met with fierce opposition.
Germanis has since become a fierce critic of conservative economics and politics.
In a seven-page summary of the Jan. 6 meeting, emergency management officials compared the coming winds to the fierce windstorm that battered the region in December 2011.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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