Definition of Fierce

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Fierce

Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.

Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious.

Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.

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Fierce Quotations

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Margaret Mead

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beecher

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
Xun Zi

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
John C. Calhoun

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler

I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand.
Ty Cobb

I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.
Sophia Bush

Fierce Translations

fierce in Dutch is woest
fierce in German is grimmig, grimmig
fierce in Latin is ferus, acer
fierce in Norwegian is barsk, voldsom, sint
fierce in Portuguese is feroz
fierce in Swedish is vild, grym

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