Definitions for fury
ˈfyʊər ifu·ry

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. fury, rage, madnessnoun

   a feeling of intense anger

   "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"

2. craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysterianoun

   state of violent mental agitation

3. ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildnessnoun

   the property of being wild or turbulent

   "the storm's violence"

4. Fury, Eumenides, Erinyesnoun

   (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. furynoun

   Extreme anger.

2. furynoun

   Strength or violence in action.

3. Furynoun

   female personification of vengeance

4. Etymology: From the Latin furia, (rage)

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Furynoun

   Etymology: furor, Latin; fureur, French.

   1. Madness.2. Rage; passion of anger; tumult of mind approaching to madness.

   I do oppose my patience to his fury; and am arm’d
   To suffer with a quietness of spirit
   The very tyranny and rage of his. William Shakespeare, Mer. of Venice.

   He hath given me to know the natures of living creatures, and the furies of wild beasts. Wisd. vii. 20.

   3. Enthusiasm; exaltation of fancy.

   Taking up the lute, her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired; and her voice would, in so beloved an occasion, second her wit. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

   A sybil, that had number’d in the world
   The sun to course two hundred compasses,
   In her prophetick fury sew’d the work. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   Greater than human kind she seem’d to look,
   And with an accent more than mortal spoke;
   Her staring eyes with sparkling fury roll,
   When all the god came rushing on her soul. John Dryden, Æn.

   4. [From furia, Latin.]One of the deities of vengeance, and thence a stormy, turbulent, violent, raging woman.

   The sight of any of the house of York,
   Is as a fury to torment my soul. William Shakespeare, Henry VI. p. iii.

   It was the most proper place for a fury to make her exit; and I believe every reader’s imagination is pleased, when he sees the angry goddess thus sinking in a tempest, and plunging herself into hell, amidst such a scene of horror and confusion. Joseph Addison, Remarks on Italy.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Furynoun

   a thief

2. Furynoun

   violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm

3. Furynoun

   violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence

4. Furynoun

   pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides

5. Furynoun

   one of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos

6. Furynoun

   a stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant

7. Etymology: [L. fur.]

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1. Fury

   The Fury is a fictional character created by writer Alan Moore and illustrator Alan Davis as an antagonist for the Marvel Comics hero Captain Britain. The character was later revisited by writer Chris Claremont, who used the Fury as an opponent for the X-Men.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fury

   fū′ri, n. rage: violent passion: madness: (myth.) one of the three goddesses of fate and vengeance, the Erinyes, or euphemistically Eumenides—Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra—hence a passionate, violent woman. [Fr. furie—L. furia—furĕre, to be angry.]

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1. FURY

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fury is ranked #24370 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Fury surname appeared 1,028 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fury.
   
   91.8% or 944 total occurrences were White.
   2.6% or 27 total occurrences were Black.
   2.1% or 22 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2% or 21 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.7% or 8 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Anger
   • Classical Mythology
   • Intensity
   • Mythical Monster

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'fury' in Nouns Frequency: #2776

How to pronounce fury?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fury in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fury in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of fury in a Sentence

1. Patty Murphy:

   ( I feel) anger, fury, rage. I feel despondent, helpless, hopeless, frustrated, but also it motivates me. It encourages me to help be a voice for people who can't be a voice and want to say these things, or can't say these things, like teachers.

2. Dick Gregory:

   Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

3. The Italian:

   It was far from perfect today. I just skied in a fury, attacking every inch of the course. In the bottom part I was really fighting against the Streif.

4. Joe Biden:

   For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward.

5. Colley Cibber:

   We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

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