Meaning

8 senses
  1. Wild; untamed.

    wild and menacing

  2. Wild; untamed.

    Of an animal, wild but descended from domestic or captive ancestors; thus, in the wild, although not necessarily of the wild type.

    In this region, the wild boars can be dangerous, but (perhaps counterintuitively) the feral hogs can be even worse.

  3. Having the characteristics of an animal; animal-like.

  4. Of a person, contemptible; unruly; misbehaved.

  5. (Internet)Behaving in an out-of-control way due to enthrallment with a certain thought, behavior, person, etc.

  6. (not comparable, slang)That is a feral character; zoomorphic.

  7. Deadly, fatal.

  8. Of or pertaining to the dead, funereal.

Examples

17 sentences
  1. Sami was going after a feral dog.

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  2. Tom was scratched by a feral cat.

    deTom wurde von einer wilden Katze gekratzt.

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  3. Farm cats are usually feral or semi-feral.

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  4. Sami fired a shot at a feral dog.

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  5. Cookie is a black feral cat with no tail.

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Translations

8 languages
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Origin

From Latin fera (“wild beast”, noun) + -al or Latin ferus (“wild; savage; cruel”, adjectiv

From Latin fera (“wild beast”, noun) + -al or Latin ferus (“wild; savage; cruel”, adjective) + -al. Alternatively, borrowed from Middle French féral or Late Latin ferālis.

From Latin fērālis (“funereal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, sacred place”).

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Forms

more feral, most feral
Comparativemore feral Lesson
Superlativemost feral Lesson

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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