fierce – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of fierce

Adjective: fierce

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativefiercer
Superlativefiercest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore fierce
Superlativemost fierce

Sample Sentences

  • 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 […] [2006, Kenneth Conibear, Northland Footprints:]
  • 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. [2012, Michael Bryant, 28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope, Viking:]
  • 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. [1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:]
  • 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. [2020 December 29, Frida Ghitis, “Trump has set Republicans up to fail in Georgia”, in CNN, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022:]
  • The lion gave a fierce roar.
  • Q: "How was the party last night?" A: "Fierce!"
  • Tyra said to strike a pose and make it fierce.

Adjectives inflected like fierce

serene, severe, secure, sedate, wheelie, simple, complete, fulsome, sprightlie, discrete, plosive, bizarre, brusque, brittle, wholesome, sincere, shystie, loveable, prophane, terrible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

From Middle English fers, fiers, borrowed from Old French fers (“wild", "ferocious”), nominative of fer, from Latin ferus (“wild", "untamed”). See: Latin Adjectives 'ferus'.