Meaning of Fierceness | Babel Free
Equivalents
Examples
“I stroked it gently, on which the mutinous rogue seemed to swell, and gather a new degree of fierceness and insolence; so that finding it grew not to be trifled with any longer, I prepar'd for rubbers in good earnest.”
Fanny Hill
“Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need⟳ no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust⟳ of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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