Definitions for fierce

fierce fierce

Spelling: [feers]
IPA: /fɪərs/

Fierce is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in fierce (ceefir).

Definitions for fierce

adjective

  1. menacingly wild, savage, or hostile:
  2. violent in force, intensity, etc.:
  3. furiously eager or intense:
  4. Informal. extremely bad or severe:

Origin of fierce

1250-1300; Middle English fiers Anglo-French fers, Old French fiers (nominative) Latin ferus wild, fierce; cf. feral1, ferocious

Examples for fierce

Throughout the fifties, in city after city, fluoridation became the subject of fierce debate.

She could be fierce and wicked; she is ignorant and bitter about many things; I am afraid for her.

Their bodies would be discovered more than a month after they died, after fierce fighting in the African nation subsided.

In the midst of that fierce winter, Anna fell ill, developing a nasty, lingering cough.

The voice, too, when he spoke, was as deep and as fierce as the growl of a beast of prey.

They had also come “to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.”

I so loved the fierce bodily contact of football that I suppose my enthusiasm made up somewhat for my lack of size.

When a woman loves a fierce man she takes the risk of his fierceness.

Afterward his uncle came in a fierce humor, slamming the door.

This unexpected opposition excited the fierce resentment of the captain.

Word Value for fierce
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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