| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. So intense as to cause extreme suffering: cruel, ferocious, fierce, vicious. See HELP, KIND. 2. Showing or suggesting a disposition to be violently destructive without scruple or restraint: barbarous, bestial, cruel, fell2, feral, ferocious, fierce, inhuman, truculent, vicious, wolfish. See KIND. 3. Of or relating to wild animals: feral, wild. See WILD. 4. Not civilized: barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, primitive, rude, uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured, wild. Archaic : uncivil. See CULTURE, WILD.
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