ferociously

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a physically fierce manner

   silence broken by dogs barking ferociously

2. 2
   adv

   In a ferocious manner, particularly violent and aggressive.

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

3. 3
   adv

   Intensely or extremely.

   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.

Etymology

From ferocious + -ly.