ferociously
/fɚˈoʊʃɪsli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a ferocious manner, particularly violent and aggressive.
Example Sentences
- "Challenger snorted ferociously as he looked at it, and his thick black hair seemed to bristle up in his wrath."
- "To get a Times review, a gay book generally must be by a well-known writer preferably not performing at his best, or be so ferociously learned, like John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, that the Times would lose intellectual credibility by not noticing it."
- "a ferociously fast pace"
Etymology
Etymology tree English ferocious Middle English -ly English -ly English ferociously From ferocious + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more ferociously (comparative)
most ferociously (superlative)