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superferocious en · ADJ

Etymology

From super- + ferocious.

Meanings

1. (rare) Extremely ferocious; of tremendous ferocity.
   • The Chachi and blacks think in a related manner and populate their arboreal surroundings with all sorts of creatures: gigantic snakes, superferocious jaguars, anthropormorphic giants and dwarfs, ogres and nymphs --- generally sinister beings that devour the flesh, steal the soul, hurl death-dealing, or seduce the unwary away from cultural proprieties. 1996, Warren DeBoer, Warren R. DeBoer, Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 117:
   • A cat becomes ultraplacid when part of its forebrain is removed, and superferocious when all the forebrain is removed. 1948, Collier's, Volume 122, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 93:
   • Most cacti classed as cholla are a bristling mass of needle-like, spines. The spiny joints, somewhat suggestive of superferocious chestnut burrs, become detached by a mere touch — often from a gently stirring breeze. 1941, American Museum of Natural History, Natural History Magazine, Incorporated, Natural History, The American Museum of Natural History, page 131:
   • It was conjectured that the likeliest candidate was the superferocious General Bradley. 1950, New Times, Newspaper "Trud", page 17:
   • "Don’t get in one of your superferocious moods, Mrs. L." He glared at the sky as if daring it to lighten without his permission. "You’ll be airborne before dawn." 1978, Phyllis S. Moore, Williwaw, Breakwater Books, page 164:
   • Petty worries and troubles lie far away. Wars are-but a nightmare of the imagination. Nothing matters here except the occasional sting of a superferocious insect and the far-away hoarse calling of a carrion crow. 1946, Noel Mostyn Sedgwick, By Covert Field and Marsh, Herbert Jenkins Limited, page 77:

Forms

Deriveds

superferociously · superferociousness