Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FIERCE

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Definitions of FIERCE

1. Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage.
2. Resolute or strenuously active.
3. Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
4. (slang, Ireland, rural) Excellent, very good.
5. (slang, US, LGBT, fashion) Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.
6. (slang, Ireland, rural) Extremely; very.

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Examples of Using FIERCE in a Sentence

• He served as viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, during which he expanded Portuguese influence across the Indian Ocean and built a reputation as a fierce and skilled military commander.
• It condemns in fierce terms certain people the author sees as a threat to the early Christian community, but describes these opponents only vaguely.
• January 5 – A fierce battle is fought between American troops and Filipino defenders at the town of Pililla on the island of Luzon.
• Clockwise from top-left: the war against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul; Islamic suicide terrorist Salman Abedi bombs the Manchester Arena following a concert by Ariana Grande, killing 22 people and himself; a view of the Solar eclipse of August 21 ("Great American Eclipse") in North Carolina; North Korea tests a series of nuclear missiles in the face of international condemnation, sparking a period of fierce tension between North Korea and the west; an earthquake strikes Central Mexico, killing 370 people; Spain rejects the Catalan declaration of independence after the Catalan independence referendum, leading to massive protests and strikes; Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd attending a music festival in Las Vegas, killing 60 people and himself and becoming the deadliest mass shooting in the United States; after 13 years of orbiting Saturn, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft ends its mission.
• There, while hunting, he followed his arrow and suddenly found himself face-to-face with a fierce, white eagle guarding its nest from intruders.
• Celtic have a long-standing fierce rivalry with Rangers and, together, the clubs are known as the Old Firm.
• As Beowulf is in fierce combat with Grendel's mother, he makes mention of shedding much battle-sweat.
• When Constantine died, the 74-year-old Theodora returned to the throne despite fierce opposition from court officials and military claimants.
• In book I poem 3 of Tibullus's elegies, Tisiphone, unkempt with fierce snakes instead of hair, chases impious souls here and there in Tartarus.
• There are several versions of the myth in which she appears, but the general narrative, found in Greco-Roman mythology, is that due to a curse made by the fierce wrath of the god Cupid, son of Venus, on the god Apollo (Phoebus), she became the unwilling object of the infatuation of Apollo, who chased her against her wishes.
• She was a fierce huntress, called by Nonnus, a "deer-chasing second Artemis, the girl lionkiller" and "a champion in the leafy forest with lionslaying hands".
• Although Silent Spring was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides.
• In his Chronography the chronicler Malalas described Neoptolemus as "of good stature, good chest, thin, white, good nose, ruddy hair, wooly hair, light-eyed, big-eyed, blond eyebrows, blond beginnings of a beard, round-faced, precipitate, daring, agile, a fierce fighter".
• Born Sétanta, he gained his better-known name as a child, after killing Culann's fierce guard dog in self defence and offering to take its place until a replacement could be reared, hence he became the "Hound (cú) of Culann".
• The names of the beings involved in this flooding include Ua-nui (terrible rain), Ua-roa (long-continued rain), Ua-whatu (fierce hailstorms), and Ua-nganga (sleet); after these, their children in turn took up the fight: Hau-maringi (mist), Hau-marotoroto (heavy dew), and Tōmairangi (light mist) (Grey 1956:10–11, Grey 1971:5).
• After a fierce struggle, Kawelo kills Apukohai, having invoked the assistance of the owl god and the fish Ulu-makaikai (Beckwith 1970: 409–411).
• In Fijian mythology, Dakuwaqa (Dakuwanga) is a shark deity and often appears as a fierce sea monster, guarding the islands.
• Stephen's early reign saw fierce fighting with disloyal English barons, rebellious Welsh leaders, and Scottish invaders.
• He proposes the fierce nature of this goddess is due to her association with Rudra (Shiva), identified with the fire god Agni at times.
• Fierce territory-wide blizzard conditions prevented the delivery of a life-saving diphtheria antitoxin serum by airplane from Anchorage.

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