ferociously

English

Etymology

From ferocious +‎ -ly.

Adverb

ferociously (comparative more ferociously, superlative most ferociously)

1. In a ferocious manner, particularly violent and aggressive.
   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Challenger snorted ferociously as he looked at it, and his thick black hair seemed to bristle up in his wrath.

2. Intensely or extremely.
   • 1987 February 1, T. R. Witomski, “Zeitgeist or Poltergeist? Why Gay Books Are So Bad”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 9:

     To get a Times review, a gay book generally must be by a well-known writer preferably not performing at his best, or be so ferociously learned, like John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, that the Times would lose intellectual credibility by not noticing it.

   a ferociously fast pace

Translations

in a ferocious manner

• Catalan: feroçment (ca)
• Galician: ferozmente (gl)
• Latin: ferōciter (la)
• Polish: brutalnie (pl), bestialsko (pl), okrutnie (pl)
• Portuguese: ferozmente (pt)
• Spanish: ferozmente (es)