What does fierce mean?
Fierce means Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage..
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/fɪəs/ · adjective
Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage..
A fierce storm battered the coast.
Their fights with other members of their own kind were always preceded by loud and fierce waulings or savage snarling and snapping of teeth […]
One constituent spent an hour educating me on the history of pit bulls: the Molossians, the Mastiffs; the Greeks, Romans, Brits, Tibetans, and Germans; the crossbreeds. A common theme ran throughout their history: they were the fiercest of fighters, and eventually bred to fight—in wars during antiquity, in dog fights for centuries. Regardless, they were again and again attacking other dogs and people.
We made a fierce attempt to escape.
I feel a fierce loyalty to my kin.
Yet his passion for her had grown fiercer than ever, and he swore to himself that he would win her back from her phantasies. She, one may believe, was ready enough to listen.
Trump’s fiercest advocates have launched their Samson option: If he can’t keep power, they’ll bring down the party with him by calling for a boycott of the election.
The lion gave a fierce roar.
Use fierce when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fierce means Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage..
Common synonyms include furious, incessive, raging, ferocious.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A fierce storm battered the coast.
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