Meaning of FURIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'fyûreeus
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- [adj] 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"
- [adj] (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea"
- [adj] marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
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| | Synonyms: | | angered, angry, enraged, ferocious, fierce, infuriated, maddened, raging, savage, stormy, tempestuous, violent, wild |
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| | Definition: | | \Fu"ri*ous\, a. [L. furiosus, fr. furia rage, fury: cf.
F. furieux. See {Fury}.]
1. Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a
furious animal.
2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a
furious stream; a furious wind or storm.
Syn: Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent;
tumultuous; angry; mad; frantic; frenzied. --
{Fu"ri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Fu"ri*ous*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | abandoned, accident-prone, acute, amok, anarchic, angry, at fever pitch, bacchic, bellowing, berserk, bewildered, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boiling, breakneck, browned off, careless, carried away, chaotic, coarse, concentrated, corybantic, crazed, cursory, cutting, delirious, demented, demoniac, desperate, devil-may-care, Dionysiac, dirty, distracted, drastic, ecstatic, enraged, enraptured, enthusiastic, excessive, excited, exorbitant, expeditious, exquisite, fanatic, fanatical, febrile, feral, ferocious, festinate, feverish, fierce, fiery, fighting mad, flying, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, great, haggard, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hectic, hellish, hog-wild, hopping mad, hotheaded, howling, hurried, hysteric, hysterical, immediate, immoderate, impetuous, in a rage, in a tizzy, in a transport, in hysterics, incensed, infatuated, infuriate, infuriated, inordinate, insane, insensate, instant, intemperate, intense, intoxicated, irate, irrational, keen, last-minute, like one possessed, livid, mad, maddened, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, mindless, on the spot, orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic, outrageous, overanxious, overdesirous, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, pandemoniac, passing, passionate, perfervid, piercing, pissed off, possessed, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, prompt, provoked, quick, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, ravening, raving, raving mad, ravished, reckless, rigorous, rip-roaring, roaring, roaring mad, rough, running mad, running wild, savage, severe, sharp, simmering, slap-bang, slapdash, snap, speedy, splitting, stark-raving mad, steaming, stimulated, storming, stormy, superficial, swift, tempestuous, terrible, tornadic, tough, transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, ultrazealous, unconscionable, uncontrollable, unreasonable, unrestrained, up in arms, uproarious, upset, urgent, vehement, venomous, vicious, violent, virulent, volcanic, wanton, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, wrathful, wroth |
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