Synonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- extremely
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- filthy
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- heavily
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- mortally
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- rattling
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- vastly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
Examples of fiercely in a Sentence
fiercely hot weather
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Fortunately for Toranaga, he’s got Toda Mariko (Anna Sawai), a talented translator and fiercely loyal samurai, by his side.
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Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
After Trump won, partially thanks to that hard-line border security message, Democrats fiercely opposed his promise to build a border wall and his even more controversial — and loathed by voters — policy separating families at the border.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
The city also serves as the backdrop for my first real, deep relationship, when my heart loved fiercely without knowing the pain of a break.
—Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
The campaigns are fiercely divided over which approach is best for this moment.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
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Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
After Trump won, partially thanks to that hard-line border security message, Democrats fiercely opposed his promise to build a border wall and his even more controversial — and loathed by voters — policy separating families at the border.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
The city also serves as the backdrop for my first real, deep relationship, when my heart loved fiercely without knowing the pain of a break.
—Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
The campaigns are fiercely divided over which approach is best for this moment.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for fiercely
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“Fiercely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiercely. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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