feral

Speech parts

1. feral - Noun

2. feral - Adjective

3. feral - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.

Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

savage ferine berber barbarian animal funeral primal zoological mortuary dionysian deathly wilding fell wild violent
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Antonyms

beneficent good humane kind controlled domestic
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Phrases with the word

feral bee feral brown rat feral brown feral cats feral chicken feral fowl

Anagrams

flare flear Faler

Examples

The fear of missing out means today's media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out. Tony Blair

Democrats of the seventies and eighties are too tolerant, too open-minded, not feral enough. I want to be a ferocious liberal. Alec Baldwin

Human consciousness isn't optimized for anything, except maybe helping feral hominids survive in the wild. Charles Stross

Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy. David Foster Wallace

I gather from the pattern of her flinches that the late unlamented Tien Vorsoisson was one of those subtle feral parasites who leave their mates scratching their heads and asking, "Am I crazy? Am I crazy?" Lois McMaster Bujold

The Democratic Party has come to be controlled by hysterical women and their domesticated man servants. In conduct, these Democratic women are more feral than female. Ilana Mercer

Close letter words and terms

ferae naturae Feraghan Ferahan feral bee feral brown feral brown rat