fiercely

adverb

fierce·​ly ˈfirs-lē 

1

: in a fierce or vehement manner

fiercely competitive

2

: to a high degree : very

fiercely expensive

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

Recent Examples on the Web

Although labor actions were unfolding in other parts of the country, unions were fiercely opposed in the South, by then the country’s center of textile manufacturing. —Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2024

Kate Bush has always been a fiercely original art-pop icon. —Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2024

Israel’s leaders are fiercely pushing back against U.S. plans to withhold American assistance from an Israeli unit accused of human rights abuses. —Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 21 Apr. 2024

The Tortured Poets Department is extreme in its emotions and uninterested in traditional hits; not everyone will love it, but the ones who get it will adore it fiercely. —Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 19 Apr. 2024

In the cursed woods of French Cove, New Brunswick, two sisters fiercely battle against the malevolent spirit of the Headless Nun, intent on their demise. —John Hopewell, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024

The childcare crisis isn’t just for families with young children in private programs; after-school care and camps for the four months a year that most kids are not in a K-12 educational setting are also becoming more expensive and fiercely competitive to even get into. —Katherine Goldstein, TIME, 18 Apr. 2024

Critically, the bloc of voters most angry with Biden over his support for Israel is coming from groups which backed him by wide margins in 2020, but are fiercely opposed to how the president has handled the war. —Douglas Schoen, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024

So the fiercely independent teenager started catching trains to New York City to wander through Greenwich Village and the meatpacking district between 2005 and 2009. —Zachary Small, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1