superferocious

English

Alternative forms

• super-ferocious

Etymology

From super- +‎ ferocious.

Adjective

superferocious (comparative more superferocious, superlative most superferocious)

1. (rare) Extremely ferocious; of tremendous ferocity.
   • 1941, American Museum of Natural History, Natural History Magazine, Incorporated, Natural History‎, The American Museum of Natural History, page 131:

     Most cacti classed as cholla are a bristling mass of needle-like, spines. The spiny joints, somewhat suggestive of superferocious chestnut burrs, become detached by a mere touch — often from a gently stirring breeze.

   • 1946, Noel Mostyn Sedgwick, By Covert Field and Marsh‎, Herbert Jenkins Limited, page 77:

     Petty worries and troubles lie far away. Wars are-but a nightmare of the imagination. Nothing matters here except the occasional sting of a superferocious insect and the far-away hoarse calling of a carrion crow.

   • 1948, Collier's, Volume 122‎, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 93:

     A cat becomes ultraplacid when part of its forebrain is removed, and superferocious when all the forebrain is removed.

   • 1950, New Times‎, Newspaper "Trud", page 17:

     It was conjectured that the likeliest candidate was the superferocious General Bradley.

   • 1978, Phyllis S. Moore, Williwaw‎, Breakwater Books, page 164:

     "Don’t get in one of your superferocious moods, Mrs. L." He glared at the sky as if daring it to lighten without his permission. "You’ll be airborne before dawn."

   • 1996, Warren DeBoer, Warren R. DeBoer, Traces Behind the Esmeraldas Shore‎, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 117:

     The Chachi and blacks think in a related manner and populate their arboreal surroundings with all sorts of creatures: gigantic snakes, superferocious jaguars, anthropormorphic giants and dwarfs, ogres and nymphs --- generally sinister beings that devour the flesh, steal the soul, hurl death-dealing, or seduce the unwary away from cultural proprieties.