ferine
C2CEFR level
93/100Rarity: very rare
LiteraryRegister
Wild, untamed, or characteristic of a wild beast.
There was something ferine in the stray's watchful crouch that no amount of feeding could soften.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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