Synonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- extremely
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- filthy
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- heavily
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- mortally
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- rattling
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- vastly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
Examples of fiercely in a Sentence
fiercely hot weather
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Jaguars, fiercely strong cats native to the Americas, are known as kings of the jungle.
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Mie Hoejris Dahl, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
Google countered that the ad-tech market was already fiercely competitive, with social media and streaming companies having become big players in the space.
—David McCabe, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Some scientists and activists fiercely opposed the four-year research effort — called the Minke Whale Hearing Project — over concerns that whales would become stressed and potentially die during their brief stints in captivity.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2024
Opening with a shot of Laura questioning Raúl, the teaser cuts quickly to a close-up of one of his architectural models before shifting feverishly through his emotions as clips of the marauding newcomers are fiercely intertwined with his declining sanity.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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Mie Hoejris Dahl, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
Google countered that the ad-tech market was already fiercely competitive, with social media and streaming companies having become big players in the space.
—David McCabe, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Some scientists and activists fiercely opposed the four-year research effort — called the Minke Whale Hearing Project — over concerns that whales would become stressed and potentially die during their brief stints in captivity.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2024
Opening with a shot of Laura questioning Raúl, the teaser cuts quickly to a close-up of one of his architectural models before shifting feverishly through his emotions as clips of the marauding newcomers are fiercely intertwined with his declining sanity.
—Holly Jones, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Fiercely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiercely. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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