adv
Meaning 1
In a ferocious manner, particularly violent and aggressive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ferociously
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CMU ARPABET: F ER0 OW1 SH IH0 S L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
Intensely or extremely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a ferociously fast pace
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
in a physically fierce manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- silence broken by dogs barking ferociously
- they fought fiercely
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fiercely
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English ferocious Middle English -ly English -ly English ferociously From ferocious + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: feroçment — in a ferocious manner
- Galician: ferozmente — in a ferocious manner
- Latin: ferōciter — in a ferocious manner
- Polish: brutalnie — in a ferocious manner
- Polish: bestialsko — in a ferocious manner
- Polish: okrutnie — in a ferocious manner
- Portuguese: ferozmente — in a ferocious manner
- Spanish: ferozmente — in a ferocious manner