본문 바로가기
정이로운 영어공부/with More Sophisticated Expressions

289. Feral - CAE Adjectives - CAE Vocabulary

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 10. 9.
728x90
반응형

Feral : (특히 농장이나 가정에서 달아난 뒤) 돌아다니며 사는, 야생의, (사람/소리)포악한, 공격적인, 야생적인, 제어가 안되는, 미개한, 사나운, 길들여 지지 않은, 교양없는, 상스러운

Ferally

 

1)

If you discribe an animal as feral, you are saying it's a wild animal

but, most normally we use this for animals that used to be kept by the people and now survive in the wild

a feral animals, a wild animal

feral cats

you will find populations or colonies of feral cats in some cities

they don't have any owner and they live all of their lives are wild in the city

a feral animal normally that once was domesticated and abandoned or it's escaped and it's gone to live in the wild

feral dogs

all sort of feral animals tha has escaped from captivity and has adapted to living in the wild

feral chickens

feral sheeps

 

 

2)

you could call somebody feral

they have characteristics of a wild animal

a gang of feral youths

wild, vicious, anti-social, aggressive, uncontrolled, savage, untamed, uncultivated

undomesticated, ferocious, barbarous

a feral child, this is a child that has been raised without human contact and allegedly raised by wild animals

feral behavior

 

 

3)

other things like sounds, a feral snarl

I could hear the feral shouting of the football supporters

this music has a very feral piano sound to it , fierce and wild

 

 

 

Formality : 5.5 - 6

 

 

728x90

 

728x90
반응형

댓글