| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A wild beast; a beast of prey.[Websters]. | |
| Adjective | 1. Wild and menacing.[Wordnet]
2. Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.[Websters] 3. Being feral, undomesticated or unsociable. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being wild, savage, ferocious, untamed or orgiastic. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being deadly or fatal. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being beastly, brutish or bestial. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being brutal, cruel or inhuman. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being fierce, truculent, violent, furious or rabid. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being barbarous, barbaric, heathenish, barbarian or gothic. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb ferinely.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (ferinely) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective ferine.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FERINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1696. (references) |
| Etymology:Ferine \Fe"rine\, adjective. [Latin expression ferinus, from ferus wild. See Fierce.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FERINE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Wild; untamed; savage. Lions, tigers, wolves and bears are ferine beasts.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adjective] feral. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
