Grim-looking; grim in appearance or nature.

Of a person, a person's disposition, etc.: cruel, harsh; given to violence or severity; (of an animal) savage, uncontrollable.

Of persons or animals: Fierce, cruel, savage or harsh in disposition or action. Also, in weaker sense, daring, determined, bold. Occasionally const…

Causing pain or suffering; injurious, baleful, cruel, severe. Obs.

Of persons and their attributes or actions: Fierce, raging, furious; stern, wroth. Obsolete.

Of persons: Fierce, harsh, cruel.

Full of grimness; fierce, terrible.

Of persons (also transferred and figurative of things): Disposed to inflict suffering; indifferent to or taking pleasure in another's pain or…

Recklessly violent, furious, ruthless, cruel.

Of formidably violent and intractable temper, like a wild beast; vehement and merciless in anger or… of persons, their dispositions or attributes.

Shrewd; clever, cunning.

Full of rude strength and fierce vigour; rough, fierce, savage; powerful, violent in action. (Often an epithet of the boar or bear.)

Fierce, cruel, violent. Also, bold, sturdy.

Of a person, an action, etc.: cruel, brutal, violent.

Characterized by a lack of reason or rational thought; unintelligent, untaught; brutish, uncivilized. Now rare.

Fierce, furious.

Of persons and animals, their actions, feelings, etc.: Cruel, fierce, terrible; wicked, base. Now poetic.

Rough; fierce, violent, cruel; severe; keen, eager.

(Usually spelt curst.) Of people or animals: fierce, savage, vicious.

Bad, in various senses (not always clearly distinguishable). Frequent in Middle English use; later… Of wounds, disease: severe; malignant.

Characterized by, arising from, vengeance or revenge; cruel, dreadful.

= wolfish, adj. 2 3.

Of an action or disposition: not in accordance with natural human feelings or moral standards, esp. in regard to familial relationships…

Of persons: Not having the qualities proper or natural to a human being; esp. destitute of natural kindness or pity; brutal, unfeeling, cruel. Also…

Rough, rude; savage, brutal. ? Obsolete.

Bloody; figurative cruel.

= felon, adj. 1.

Furious, fierce, mad; = mankind, adj.2 Obsolete. rare.

Held in abomination, detested; beastly, inhuman. Obsolete.

Of or pertaining to a lion; resembling or having the nature of a lion; brave or fierce as a lion.

Of or pertaining to a boar; resembling a boar; sensual; cruel. (As borish was a former spelling of both boarish and boorish, the two were often…

Characterized by or exhibiting ferocity or cruelty; fierce, cruel, savage, barbarous.

Inhuman, inhumane, unmerciful, cruel. Of actions, etc.

Resembling a lion or what pertains to a lion.

Brutal, barbaric; inhuman.

Of an animal: fierce, furious.

Uncivilized, coarse; brutal. In later use South African (derogatory): designating a black African from a traditional tribal or rural culture. Now rare…

Like, or like that of, a tiger; esp. of the nature or having the qualities of the tiger; cruel, bloodthirsty, fierce, relentless.

Lacking human decency or compassion; brutally harsh or cruel; inhuman. Now rare.

Of persons and their actions. Full of rough violence to others, violently fierce, savage, truculent. Obsolete.

Savage, barbarous, uncivilized. Also: made savage or cruel. Now rare.

Like, or like that of, a tiger; tigerish.

Spenserian word, with the sense ‘furious, savage’, due to misunderstanding of a passage containing yond, adj.1, probably the following:—

= tigerish, adj.

= inhuman, adj. 1. Obsolete.

Characteristic of the Roman emperor Nero; esp. tyrannical, extremely cruel, licentious.

Inhumanly cruel or savage; brutal.

Characteristic of Phalaris; inhumane, merciless.

Not gentle in action; rough, harsh, unkind, violent. Of actions, language, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling a wild beast; brutal, savage.

= savage, adj. 5a.

Full of fierceness; ferocious, savage.

Pertaining to or characteristic of the Elder or Younger Dionysius, tyrants of Syracuse, notorious for cruelty.

Of or relating to the Huns (Hun, n.1 1a). Also: characteristic of the Huns; brutal, savage, destructive. Cf. Hunnic, adj., Hunnian, adj. historical.

Lion-like.

Tiger-like, tigerish.

Inhuman; coarsely cruel, savage, fierce.

= ferocious, adj.

Of animals or persons, their dispositions or actions: Fierce, savage; savagely cruel or destructive.

Fierce, savage; cf. asper, adj. 5. Obsolete.

Wild, savage.

Characteristic of, befitting, or resembling that of, a wolf.

General attributive, as tiger cage, tiger country, tiger-cub, tiger-drive, tiger-hunt, tiger-jungle, tiger-pit (pit, n.1 5), tiger-skin, tiger-spring…

figurative. Tartar-like; rough and violent, savage.

Tartar-like; rough and fierce.

= Neronian, adj.

Tigerish, tiger-like.

= Neronian, adj.

= unmanly, adj. (in various senses).

Not accepting, or disregarding, the views and practices of humanitarianism.