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fiercely

  • adverb
  • fierce·ly
  • /ˈfɪɹsli/

In a fierce manner.

Example

“The wind blew fiercely and the rain fell heavily.”

Other meanings

  1. extremely; to a large degree.

Word history

From Middle English "fersly".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “fiercely” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.