superferocious
English
Alternative forms
- super ferocious
- super-ferocious
Etymology
super- + ferocious
Adjective
superferocious (comparative more superferocious, superlative most superferocious)
- (rare) Extremely ferocious; of tremendous ferocity.
- 1948, Collier's, Volume 122, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 93:
- A cat becomes ultraplacid when part of its forebrain is removed, and superferocious when all the forebrain is removed.
- 1950, New Times, Newspaper "Trud", page 17:
- It was conjectured that the likeliest candidate was the superferocious General Bradley.
- 1996, Warren DeBoer, Warren R. DeBoer, Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 117:
- 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.