Adjective: fere
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fere |
| Superlative | most fere |
Sample Sentences
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Man's flesh they eat: their own they paint and sear, / branding with burning iron, — usage fere! [1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 405:]
Adjectives inflected like fere
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English fer, from Anglo-Norman fer, from Old French fier. Compare Latin ferus (“wild”). See: Latin Adjectives '
ferus'.