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Definitions: FERINE |
FERINEAdjective1. Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Noun1. A wild beast; a beast of prey. |
Date "FERINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Etymology: Ferine \Fe"rine\, adjective. [Latin expression ferinus, from ferus wild. See Fierce.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Malevolence | Cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty; (murderous); atrocious; bloodyminded. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "FERINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i egër (atrocious, barbarous, bestial, cannibalic, cannibalish, cruel, despiteful, ferae naturae, feral, ferocious, fierce, furious, merciless, outrageous, rabid, savage, snappish, tigerish, tigrish, vicious, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неопитомен (feral, undomesticated, untamed), див (barbarous, dark, ferae naturae, feral, ferocious, frenzied, harsh, heathen, lupine, natural, orgiastic, rough, savage, tameless, uncivilized, uncultivated, untamed, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | divoký (boisterous, feral, ferocious, fierce, gone wild, obstreperous, truculent, uncivilized, unruly, untamed, wild, wildcat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vad (barbarian, barbarous, feral, ferocious, fierce, frenzied, game, gothic, phrenetic, rabid, ramage, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, robustic, rough and tumble, ruffianly, rumbustious, savage, tameless, truculent, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ferino (feral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erinefay relativo a férias (vacationist). (various references) sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), bestial (beastly, bestial, bestially, brutally, brutish, feral). (various references) дикий (farouche, ferae naturae, feral, natural, orgiastic, savage, tameless, untamed, wild). (various references) divlji (feral, unlicensed, wild, wildcat). (various references) ferino (savage). (various references) förvildad (feral, undomesticated, unkept, weed-grown, wild), vild (coltish, delirious, ding-dong, ferae naturae, feral, ferocious, fierce, frenetic, haggard, headlong, madcap, phrenetic, rampant, riotous, savage, truculant, truculent, untamed, wild, wildcat). (various references) неприручений (tameless, unreclaimed), злоякісний (cancerous, malign, malignant, pernicious), дикий (barbarian, barbarous, feral, natural, orgiastic, savage, wild). (various references) không c y cấy cục súc; hung d (feral), hoang dã hoang vu (feral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"FERINE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aerine, derine, efine, efrie, errine, Faine, fairen, Falrinne, Faraneh, farine, Farini, Farnie, Fearne, Fegina, fegine, feien, feire, femine, feran, ferein, feren, ferice, Ferie, ferile, ferin, ferina, Ferlini, ferne, Fernel, Fernet, Fernex, Fernilee, feron, ferone, Ferrano, ferrene, Ferrigno, Ferrin, ferrine, Ferrini, ferrire, fevine, Fifine, Fiorini, Foraine, forien, frein, Freinkel, fresne, Freunde, Freyne, Fucine, furane, Furiani, furline, nerine, Verine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "FERINE" (pronounced 'Fe"rine'): Antipyrine, Caprine, Chelerythrine, Chlorine, Dasyurine, Euchlorine, Igasurine, Kairine, Lampyrine, Larine, Myrmotherine, Neurine, Nodosarine, Vitrine, viverrine, Xenurine, Zooerythrine. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: refine. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: finer, infer. | |
-2 letters: erne, fere, fern, fine, fire, firn, free, neif, reef, reif, rein, rife. | |
-3 letters: ere, ern, fee, fen, fer, fie, fin, fir, ire, nee, ree, ref, rei, rif, rin. | |
-4 letters: ef, en, er, if, in, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: definer, feigner, fernier, firemen, freeing, reefing, refined, refiner, refines. | |
+2 letters: befinger, befriend, befringe, definers, feigners, ferniest, fernlike, fevering, fineries, fingered, fingerer, flanerie, fleering, freezing, frenetic, frenzied, frenzies, friended, infecter, inferred, inferrer, infester, niffered, redefine, refiners, refinery, reinfect, reinfuse, rifeness, riflemen. | |
+3 letters: befingers, befriends, befringed, befringes, benefiter, briefness, deferring, different, enserfing, farseeing, felonries, ferneries, ferreling, ferreting, festering, fettering, fieriness, fingerers, firestone, fishermen, flaneries, foreigner, frenetics, hyperfine, infecters, inferable, inference, inferrers, infertile, infesters, infielder, interface, interfere, interfile, interfuse, predefine, redefined, redefines, redefying, refecting, refection, refeeding, refeeling, refelling, refencing, referring, refinance, reflexing, reflexion, refrained, refueling, refusenik, reinfects, reinflate, reinforce, reinfused, reinfuses, reunified, reunifies, stiffener, superfine, telfering, unbriefed, unfertile, unfreeing, unrefined. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 52 49 4E 45 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-. .. -. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E R I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0045 0052 0049 004E 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)403952434839 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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