feral
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6.7
- adjective
- /ˈfɛrəl/
:
asilvestrado
- Stray dogs and feral cats are numerous on the island and are often infested with fleas.
- feral cats
- feral pigs
- feral ungulates
So I'm still in this big group of feral young males.
- So I'm still in this big group of feral young males.
- I love him, but he's just feral and he's boisterous.
- Maddie's wounds, while no less fatal, appeared less feral, more measured, at least in comparison.
- It's just a wild, feral place.
- I mean, you have this, you know, truly original way in which you were weird, I mean, almost feral as a child.
- The younger son, being the wild feral entity that he is, wants to go out in the world and find out what it's all about.
- But the idea that this that the figure who's making this like Mountain Lion, like, you know, feral cat crying sound takes that impossibly long step.
- They sell wild animals, which by the way, SAR started in fucking China from these psychos eating feral meat.
- Hot Girls Summer and Feral Girls Summer is about not shaving your legs.
Examples
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In the forest, they encountered a feral pack of dogs that were quite menacing.
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Feral cats making a mess of all the indigenous critters.
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It's just a wild, feral place.
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Yeah, and if you do manage to catch him, then he goes feral and turns into some kind of crazy wild animal.
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Those kids were living like feral cats in a crack house.
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I heard a feral dog howling at a great distance, a lonely noise.
Fiction book (2000) -
There were feral dogs out there, and they'd been using the house as a shelter.
Fiction book (2000) -
See, we're plagued by feral hogs around these parts.
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Hair slicked tight to her high-cheekboned face, she looks sleek and feral, with eyes that burn bright.
Fiction book (1991) -
The alley ended at the entrance to a weedy yard patrolled by feral cats.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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1.0
Living in a natural state and not tamed by people
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4.5
Very fierce and violent and often cruel
Being wild and dangerous in a frightening way
Not tamed and living in the wild like wolves
Antonyms
Compounds
How Wild
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word feral comes from the Latin ferus, which means 'wild'. So feral describes an animal that has returned to the wild and often behaves untamed or dangerous.