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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fierce \Fierce\, adjective [Compar. {Fiercer}; superl. {Fiercest}.] [OE. fers, fiers, OF. fier, nom. fiers, fierce, savage, cruel, F. fier proud, from L. ferus wild, savage, cruel; perh. akin to E. bear the animal. Cf. {Feral}, {Ferocity}.]
1. Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.
His fierce thunder drove us to the deep. --Milton.
2. Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious. ''A fierce whisper.'' --Dickens. ''A fierce tyrant.'' --Pope.
The fierce foe hung upon our broken rear. --Milton.
Thou huntest me as a fierce lion. --Job. x. 16.
3. Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
Syn: Ferocious; savage; cruel; vehement; impetuous; barbarous; fell. See {Ferocious}. -- {Fierce"ly}, adverb -- {Fierce"ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fierce
adjective
1: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: {ferocious}, {furious}, {savage}]
2: marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" [syn: {tearing}, {vehement}, {violent}, {trigger-happy}]
3: ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage" [syn: {cutthroat}, {bowelless}]
4: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: {boisterous}, {rough}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
227 Moby Thesaurus words for "fierce": Draconian, Tartarean, abandoned, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, aggressive, amok, angry, animal, antagonistic, anthropophagous, astringent, atrocious, awful, barbaric, barbarous, battling, beastly, bellicose, belligerent, bellowing, berserk, bestial, biting, bitter, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, carried away, caustic, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, concentrated, contentious, cruel, cruel-hearted, cutting, dangerous, delirious, demoniac, demoniacal, desperate, devilish, diabolic, dire, distracted, double-edged, drastic, dreadful, ecstatic, edged, enemy, enraged, enraptured, escharotic, excessive, exorbitant, exquisite, extravagant, extreme, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fiery, fighting, fighting mad, frantic, frenzied, full of fight, fulminating, fuming, furious, great, grim, haggard, harsh, hawkish, hellish, hog-wild, homicidal, hopping mad, hostile, hotheaded, howling, hysterical, immoderate, impetuous, in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, incisive, infernal, infuriate, infuriated, inhuman, inhumane, inimical, inordinate, intemperate, intense, intoxicated, intractable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, keen, kill-crazy, mad, maddened, madding, malign, malignant, maniac, martial, menacing, merciless, militant, militaristic, military, mordacious, mordant, murderous, noncivilized, offensive, orgasmic, orgiastic, outrageous, passionate, penetrating, piercing, pitiless, poignant, possessed, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rabid, racking, raging, ramping, ranting, raving, raving mad, ravished, rigorous, roaring, roaring mad, rough, running mad, ruthless, saber-rattling, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scathing, scrappy, severe, sharkish, sharp, simmering, slavering, soldierlike, soldierly, splitting, stabbing, stinging, storming, stormy, strident, stringent, subhuman, superlative, supreme, tameless, tart, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, tigerish, tornadic, tough, transcendent, transported, trenchant, trigger-happy, truculent, tumultuous, turbulent, unchristian, uncivilized, unconscionable, uncontrollable, unfriendly, ungentle, unhuman, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, violent, virulent, vitriolic, volcanic, warlike, warmongering, warring, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, wolfish
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