What does Furious mean?

Definitions for Furious
ˈfyʊər i əsfu·ri·ous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ferocious, fierce, furious, savageadjective

    marked by extreme and violent energy

    "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"

  2. angered, enraged, furious, infuriated, maddenedadjective

    marked by extreme anger

    "the enraged bull attached"; "furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl"; "infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy"; "could not control the maddened crowd"

  3. angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wildadjective

    (of the elements) as if showing violent anger

    "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea"

Wiktionary

  1. furiousadjective

    Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.

  2. furiousadjective

    Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. FURIOUSadjective

    Etymology: furieux, French; furiosus, Latin.

    No man did ever think the hurtful actions of furious men and innocents to be punishable. Richard Hooker, b. i. s. 9.

    Who can be wise, amaz’d, temp’rate and furious,
    Loyal and neutral in a moment? No man. William Shakespeare, Macb.

    To be furious,
    Is to be frighted out of fear; and, in that mood,
    The dove will peck the estridge. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopat.

ChatGPT

  1. furious

    Furious is an adjective describing a state of extreme anger, rage or intensity. The term often refers to uncontrolled or violent anger, but can also convey a sense of excessive energy, speed or intensity, such as a furious storm or a furious pace. It comes from the Latin "furious", meaning "mad, raging, frenzied".

Webster Dictionary

  1. Furiousadjective

    transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal

  2. Furiousadjective

    rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm

Wikidata

  1. Furious

    Furious is the only album by the supergroup Soopa Villainz released in 2005. The album peaked at #9 on the Billboard "Top Independent Albums" chart, #42 on the "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums" chart and #92 on the Billboard 200.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Furious

    fū′ri-us, adj. full of fury: violent.—adj. Fū′ribund, raging.—ns. Furios′ity, madness; Furiō′so, a furious person.—adv. Fū′riously.—n. Fū′riousness. [O. Fr. furieus—L. furiōsusfuria, rage.]

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British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Furious' in Adjectives Frequency: #845

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Furious in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Furious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Furious in a Sentence

  1. Emily Jashinsky:

    Where the anxieties of the working class and Baby Boomers were channeled into Trump, the anxieties of the left were channeled into a furious, culture-wide censorship campaign (against the Common Good). (Our Parents)

  2. Rodrigue Arcuri:

    We are happy to see the people of New Orleans finally able to return to normal and enjoy the Mardi Gras season, that is exactly what we have been advocating for.We are furious to see our so-called city leaders violating their own mask mandate all through the carnival season while demanding that ordinary citizens and children remain masked. The hypocrisy and privilege will no longer be tolerated. The silence from our state legislature is deafening. We see you, and we are coming for you.

  3. Paul Campion:

    Climate John Kerry kept saying there are complications in the Senate, i was pretty furious and pretty disappointed.

  4. The US:

    The US has boxed itself into a corner on Huawei, with all the rhetoric coming fast and furious, but nothing to... buttress it, like evidence [ or ] an executive order.

  5. Ghislaine Maxwell:

    She was talking about humans as if they were disposable, for the purpose of sex, i was just furious. And I was fed up. I did not spot the red flags, but I did react very negatively. The fact that she was speaking about human beings in this horrible way was very offensive to me. But again, I thought she was discussing consensual adults here.

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