fury
[ fyoor-ee ]
/ ˈfyʊər i /
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noun, plural fu·ries.
unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like: The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.
violence; vehemence; fierceness: the fury of a hurricane; a fury of creative energy.
Furies, Classical Mythology. minor female divinities: the daughters of Gaea who punished crimes at the instigation of the victims: known to the Greeks as the Erinyes or Eumenides and to the Romans as the Furiae or Dirae. Originally there were an indefinite number, but were later restricted to Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone.
a fierce and violent person, especially a woman: She became a fury when she felt she was unjustly accused.
RELATED WORDS
madness, rage, frenzy, energy, violence, ire, acrimony, intensity, passion, storm, furor, ferocity, indignation, savagery, severity, power, conniption, fire, rise, acerbity
Nearby words
- furuncle,
- furuncular,
- furunculoid,
- furunculosis,
- furunculus,
- furze,
- fusain,
- fusan,
- fusarium,
- fusarium wilt
Idioms
like fury, Informal. violently; intensely: It rained like fury.
Origin of fury
Synonym study
1. See anger.
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Furies
/ (ˈfjʊərɪz) /
pl n singular Fury
classical myth the snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, usually three in number, who pursued unpunished criminalsAlso called: Erinyes, Eumenides
fury
/ (ˈfjʊərɪ) /
noun plural -ries
violent or uncontrolled anger; wild rage
an outburst of such anger
uncontrolled violencethe fury of the storm
a person, esp a woman, with a violent temper
See Furies
like fury informal violently; furiouslythey rode like fury
Word Origin for fury
C14: from Latin furia rage, from furere to be furious
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fury
late 14c., "fierce passion," from Old French furie (14c.), from Latin furia "violent passion, rage, madness," related to furere "to rage, be mad." Romans used Furiæ to translate Greek Erinyes, the collective name for the avenging deities sent from Tartarus to punish criminals (in later accounts three in number and female). Hence, figuratively, "an angry woman" (late 14c.).
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Furies
In classical mythology, hideous female monsters who relentlessly pursued evildoers.
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fury
see hell has no fury like a woman scorned.
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