Furious

Definition: Furious

Furious

Adjective

1. Marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle".

2. 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. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "furious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Furious \Fu"ri*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression furiosus, from furia rage, fury: compare to the French expression furieux. See Fury.]. (references)

Synonyms: Furious

Excitability

Vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap.

Haste

Adjective: hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.

Resentment

Fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless.

Violence

Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.

Crosswords: Furious

I never get furious. As we say in fencing, 'What's the point (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

Even when I was a kid, I always took it for granted people wanted to play the games I like, and I'd be furious when they didn't (The Guns of Navarone; writing credit: Alistair MacLean; Carl Foreman)

You know, life's a lot like a river: fast, furious, unpredictable (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

I'm sure he'll be furious. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

The Furious (1974)

I Am Furious (1969)

The Fast and the Furious (1954)

Feast and Furious (1952)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Furious Hunger: America in the 21st Century (reference)

• A Furious Place (reference)

• Fat & Furious (reference)

• Furious Cooking: Poems (reference)

• Furious Flycycle (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Drama Classics Triple Feature, Vol. 6 (The Fast and the Furious (1954) / The Big Trees / Time of Your Life) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Fast & The Furious [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This skirt made the Thenardiers furious.

This furious music allayed his dread and, leaning against the windowledge, he let his eyelids close again

His furious fingers managed to flip open the only two buttons on his fly that had been buttoned

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Solomon Islands

One of the most furious sea battles ever fought took place off Savo Island, near Guadalcanal, also in August 1942. Before the Japanese completely withdrew from Guadalcanal in February 1943, over 7,000 Americans and 21,000 Japanese died. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "furious": be furious ♦ become furious ♦ being furious ♦ come fast and furious ♦ get furious ♦ grow furious ♦ make furious. Additional references.

Albanian

i xhindosur (demoniacal, frantic, mad, possessed, wrathful), i tërbuar (berserk, berserker, enraged, frantic, frenzied, mad, rabid, rampageous, rampant, riotous, wild), i furishëm (driving, frantic, vehement), i ethshëm (febrile, feverish, hectic), i egër (atrocious, barbarous, bestial, cannibalic, cannibalish, cruel, despiteful, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, merciless, outrageous, rabid, savage, snappish, tigerish, tigrish, vicious, wild). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محنق (angry, infuriate, wrathful), ‏محتد (agitated, angry, enraged, infuriated, origin), ‏متميز غيظا, ‏ناشط (active, alive, brisk, busy, kinetic, pragmatic, smart, stirring, vivid), ‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏غاضب (angry, beside himself, cross, dandified, enraged, exasperating, furred, glaring, grim, grumpy, indignant, irate, livid, narky, pink, revolting, stuffy, sullen, wrathful, wroth), ‏صاخب (boisterous, discordant, gusty, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, rackety, randy, rattling, raucous, riotous, rip roaring, roistering, saturnine, shrill, staring, tempestuous, termagant, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), ‏جنوني (crazy, insane, lunatic, madcap, manic, terrific). (various references)

Bulgarian 

яростен (irate, ireful, mad, rabid, raging, rampant, tearing, thundering, towering, violent), страхотен (awesome, devilish, direful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightful, ghastly, great, morbid, tremendous, unearthly), ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), разярен (enraged, irate, livid, rampageous, savage, thundery, wrathful), освирепял (savage), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi). (various references)

Chinese 

猖狂 (savage), 狂怒 , 瘈 (hydrophobia, madness), 氣憤 (indignant), 愤怒 (Anger, Angered, Angering, Furies, Fury, indignation, irate, Rage). (various references)

Czech

zuřivý (blazing, ferocious, fierce, frantic, furred, rabid, savage, vehement, violent), vzteklý (fierce, mad, rabid), urputný (fierce, unrelenting), rozzuřený (enraged, exasperating, infuriating, raving mad, shirty), šílený (berserk, crackpot, crazy, demented, frenzied, harebrained, insane, lunatic, mad, manic, terrible, terrific, tomfool). (various references)

Danish

rasende. (various references)

Dutch

woedend, verwoed, doldriftig, dol (crazy, drunk, foolish, insane, intoxicated, mad, nuts, rabid). (various references)

Esperanto

furioza, kolerega. (various references)

Faeroese

sansaleysur, óður. (various references)

Finnish

raivoisa (frantic, mad). (various references)

French

furieux (furred). (various references)

German

wütend (angrily, angry, berserk, enraged, fuming, grim, incensed, infuriated, irate, irately, livid, rabid, raging, sulfureous, wild), wild (berserk, boisterous, boisterously, bold, crook, deer, feral, ferocious, ferociously, fierce, frantic, furiously, game, haggard, helter-skelter, illegal, rabid, rambunctious, rampant, riotous, riotously, rough, rugged, savage, savagely, truculently, undomesticated, ungovernable, unofficial, unruly, venison, wholesale, wild, wildcat, wildly), rasend (berserk, burning, desperate, excruciating, frenetic, frenzied, infuriated, livid, rabid, racking, raging, rapturous, raving, scorching, splitting, tearing, terrific, wild), grimmig (ferocious, fierce, grim, grimly, harsh, morbid, severe, wrathful), aufgebrachte. (various references)

Greek 

έξαλλοσ (aboil, berserk, delirious, distracted, frantic, hay wire, raving), μαινόμενος, μανιώδησ (fierce, frantic, inveterate, rabid), λυσσαλέοσ (rabid), ακράτητοσ (impetuous, irrepressible, rampant, resistless, uncontrolled, undeterred, unrestrained), οργισμένος (angry, in high dudgeon, irate, resentful). (various references)

Hebrew 

קוצף, זועם (angry, grim, wrathful), זעוף (angry, irate, sullen, surly, vexed, wrathful), געשני (raging, rampageous), רותח (boiling, ebullient, vehement, wild). (various references)

Hungarian

tomboló (delirious with, frantic, rampageous, raving), haragvó (ratty), dühös (angry, hot, irate, ratty, shirty, sick, to be choked, to be in a pet, upset, venomous, waxy, Wroth), ádáz (desperate, fierce, grim). (various references)

Indonesian

sangat marah, memberang (become angry), geram (INFURIATED), buas (cruel, desolate, ferocious, savage, wild), berapi-ap (glitter, sparkle). (various references)

Italian

furioso (ireful, mad, rabid, raging, raving, violent, wild, wrathful), furibondo (enraged, infuriated, violent, wild, wrathful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

激烈 (fervent, vehement, violent), 激しい (intense, tempestuous, vehement, violent). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

どはつてん (infuriated), かくど (alien land, angle, degree of accuracy, greatly enraged, land which one visits, topsoil brought from another place to mix with the soil), げきれつ (fervent, fierceness, intenseness, severity, vehement, violence, violent), はげしい (intense, tempestuous, vehement, violent). (various references)

Korean 

격녈한. (various references)

Manx

keoie (crazy, fiery, frenetic, frenzied, insane, lunatic, maniac, savage, vicious, wild, wild as person), jymmoosagh (angry, chagrined, displeased, indignant, raging, vengeful), jiarg-chorree (extreme anger, outrage, raging, very angry), fergagh (angry, ferocious, glowering, hothead, hot-tempered, indignant, passion, raging), fargagh (angry, enraged, indignant, quick-tempered; passion, raging, vexed, wrathful). (various references)

Norwegian

rasende (mad, madden). (various references)

Papiamen

furioso, rasu, raso, rabiá, koñá, hostiná. (various references)

Pig Latin

uriousfay.(various references)

Portuguese

raivoso (rabid, raging), furioso (angry, berserk, delirious, distracted, hot, mad, rabid, raging, rampageous, rampant, raving, savage, tearing, violent, wilding). (various references)

Romanian

furios (desperate, enraged, fiery, frantic, high, hot-headed, howling, in anger, irate, ireful, like fury, mad, passionate, raging, rampageous, robust, scowling, storming, wanton, wild, wrathful), furibund, zborşit (furiously), violent (acute, bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, heady, heavy, high, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, virulent, wanton), turbat (awful, enraged, frenzied, furiously, mad, rabid, savage, tremendously), supãrat (angry, cross, irritated, magged, Moody, peeved, peevishly, petulantly, poutingly, sad, snuffy, sulky, sullen, sullenly), oţãrât (angry, crabbed, enraged, sulky, sullen, sullenly), mânios (angry, black-browed, crazy, furiously, high, hot, in warm blood, infuriated, ireful, out of temper, waxy, wrathful, wroth), ciudos (angry, despiteful, spiteful), cãtrãnit (angry, black, downcast, embittered, jaw-fallen, peevish, sulky, tar-colored, tar-coloured, Tarry), înverşunat (deadly, desperate, fierce, fiery, frenzied, hot, rabid, sharp, stubborn), întãrâtat, înfuriat (enraged, infuriated), îndrãcit (devilish, furiously, wild). (various references)

Russian 

бешеный (baresark, berserk, berserker, crazed, frantic, mad, rabid, tearing). (various references)

Scottish

duibh-leum (bound, furious leap). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

furiozan, razjaren (enraged, grim, incensed, raging, rampageous, tearing), mahnit (frantic, insane, mad), besan (amok, amuck, mad, sleepless, wild). (various references)

Spanish

torcido (askew, awry, bent, crooked, distorted, kinky, strained, turned, wry), furioso (angry, blustering, boisterous, desperate, ding-dong, mad, peeved, pelting, rabid, raging, rampageous, rampant, shirty, wild), furibundo (ablaze with anger, mad). (various references)

Swedish

ursinnig (demoniacal, enraged, frenetic, phrenetic, rabid), rasande (apoplectic, delirous, enraged, frantic, furiously, irate, ireful, livid, raging, savage, tearing, up in the air, wild), ilsken (angry, bilious, cranky, cross, ferocious, fierce, humpy, irate, livid, mad, savage, shirty, ugly, vicious). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งโกรธจัด. (various references)

Turkish

tepesi atmış (heated, in high dudgeon, madding), kızgın (angry, angry with, annoyed, ardent, baking, black, boiling, cross, dyspeptic, fervent, fierce, fiery, flaming, frowning, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, huffy, in a glow, in a pet, in a tiff, incensed, indignant, indignantly, inflamed, irate, ireful, mad, pissed off, red-hot, snappish, sore, vexed, wild, wroth), hiddetli (angry, flamboyant, hot-headed, in high dudgeon, volcanic, vulcanic, wrathful, wrathy), gözü dönmüş (ravenous, raving), azgin, azgın (desperate, excessive, fierce, goatish, mad, rampageous, rampant, Randy, skittish, wild), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), öfkeli (angry, bristly, dyspeptic, enraged, heated, hot-blooded, ill-conditioned, in a pet, incensed, indignant, inflamed, ireful, pissed off, purple in the face, rabid, rampant, red-hot, snotty, sore, spunky, vehement, waxy, white hot, with his hackles up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up). (various references)

Turkmen 

ьzсe (enraged), gaharly (mean-spirited), gaharjan (angry). (various references)

Ukrainian

розлючений (candent, enraged, raging, savage, waxy, white hot, wrathy), оскаженілий (enraged), нестямний (amok, amuck, boisterous, heartrending, rampageous, rampant). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mạnh mẽ (boot, energetic, fury, impetuous, lusty, manly, mightily, pithily, pretty, rousing, sinewy, sturdy, vibrant, violent, vivid), giận dữ (angrily, heatedly, irate, ireful, mad, raging), diên tiết mãnh liệt. (various references)

Welsh

ffroch, godrudd (wild). (various references)

animosus, fur, furatur, fure, furentur, furere, fureres, fureret, fureris, fures, furetur, furibundus, furiosi, furiosus, furis, furor, phur, saevus, vehemens. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "furious": furiously. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Furious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: auricomus, Durieux, farous, Farouz, Fenioux, ferious, Fourtou, furios, Furioso, furus, kurious, purious. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rufous.

-2 letters: fours.

-3 letters: firs, four, furs, ours, rifs, sori, sour, surf, urus.

-4 letters: fir, for, fou, fro, fur, ifs, ors, our, rif, sir, sou, sri.

-5 letters: if, is, of, or, os, si, so, us.

+2 letters: furiously.

+3 letters: aquiferous, auriferous, fortuitous, luciferous, outfigures.

+4 letters: cruciferous, cupriferous, ferruginous, frugivorous, microfungus, unfrivolous.

+5 letters: circumfluous, circumfusion, fortuitously, fulgurations, furunculosis, futurologies, futurologist, luminiferous, multifarious, salutiferous, sudoriferous, viruliferous.