Feral \Fe"ral\, a. [L. feralis, belonging to the dead.]
Funereal; deadly; fatal; dangerous. [R.] "Feral accidents."
--Burton.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
feral \fe"ral\, a. [L. ferus. See Fierce.] (Bot. & Zool.)
Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts,
birds, and plants.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
feral
adj : wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog" [syn: ferine, savage]
WordNet (r) 2.0
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "feral":
Draconian, Tartarean, abandoned, amok, animal, anthropophagous,
atrocious, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bellowing,
berserk, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal,
brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, carried away, cinerary,
cruel, cruel-hearted, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly,
delirious, demoniac, demoniacal, destructive, devilish, diabolic,
dirgelike, dismal, distracted, ecstatic, enraptured, epitaphic,
exequial, fatal, fell, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike,
fierce, frantic, frenzied, fulminating, funebrial, funebrious,
funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, furious, haggard, hellish,
hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a transport, in hysterics,
infernal, inhuman, inhumane, internecine, intoxicated, kill-crazy,
killing, lethal, mad, madding, malign, malignant, maniac,
merciless, mortal, mortuary, mournful, murderous, necrological,
noncivilized, obituary, obsequial, orgasmic, orgiastic, pernicious,
pitiless, possessed, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, raving,
ravished, roaring, running mad, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary,
sanguineous, satanic, savage, sepulchral, sharkish, slavering,
storming, subhuman, swinish, tameless, transported, truculent,
unchristian, uncivilized, uncontrollable, ungentle, unhuman,
untamed, vicious, violent, virulent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking,
wolfish
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ferine, savage
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