English-Thai Dictionary

ferocity

N ความโหดร้าย  ความทารุ ณ  ความป่าเถื่อน  ความดุร้าย  brutality fierceness savagery humaneness mercy kwam-hod-rai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FEROCITY

n.[L. ferocitas.] 1. Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as the ferocity of barbarians.
2. Fierceness indicating a savage heart; as ferocity of countenance.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FEROCITY

Fe *roc "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. ferocitas, fr. ferox, -ocis, fierce, kin to ferus wild: cf. F. ferocité. See Fierce. ]

 

Defn: Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

ferocity

fe roc i ty |fəˈräsətē fəˈrɑsədi | ▶noun ( pl. ferocities ) the state or quality of being ferocious: the ferocity of the storm caught them by surprise. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin ferocitas, from ferox, feroc- ‘fierce. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

ferocity

fer |ocity |fəˈrɒsɪti | ▶noun ( pl. ferocities ) [ mass noun ] the state or quality of being ferocious: the ferocity of the storm caught them by surprise | [ count noun ] : she hated him with a ferocity that astonished her. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French, or from Latin ferocitas, from ferox, feroc- ‘fierce ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

ferocity

ferocity noun the ferocity of his speech was startling: savagery, brutality, barbarity, fierceness, violence, bloodthirstiness, murderousness; ruthlessness, cruelty, pitilessness, mercilessness, heartlessness.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

ferocity

ferocity noun detectives were shocked by the ferocity of the attack: savagery, brutality, brutishness, barbarity, fierceness, violence, aggression, bloodthirstiness, murderousness; ruthlessness, cruelty, pitilessness, mercilessness, heartlessness, inhumanity, sadism; intensity, severity, extremity, force, strength; rare ferity. ANTONYMS gentleness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

ferocity

fe roc i ty /fərɑ́səti |-rɔ́s -/名詞 複 -ties 1 U 獰猛 （どうもう ）さ, 残忍性 .2 C 残忍な行い .