'Fury' definitions:
Definition of 'fury'
From: WordNet
noun
A feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness]
noun
noun
The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness]
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Definition of 'Fury'
From: GCIDE
- Fury \Fu"ry\, n. [L. fur.] A thief. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J. Fleteher. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fury'
From: GCIDE
- Fury \Fu"ry\, n.; pl. Furies. [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. Furor.]
- 1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. [1913 Webster]
- Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I do oppose my patience to his fury. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Meg[ae]ra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. [1913 Webster]
- The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. One of the Parc[ae], or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
- Syn: Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fury'
From: Easton
- Fury as attributed to God, is a figurative expression for dispensing afflictive judgments (Lev. 26:28; Job 20:23; Isa. 63:3; Jer. 4:4; Ezek. 5:13; Dan. 9:16; Zech. 8:2).
Synonyms of 'fury'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- acerbity,
- acrimony,
- agitation,
- Alecto,
- amok,
- anger,
- ardency,
- ardor,
- asperity,
- attack,
- battle-ax,
- bear,
- beast,
- beldam,
- berserk,
- berserker,
- bitch,
- bitch-kitty,
- bluster,
- bomber,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- brute,
- burning rage,
- cacophony,
- cat,
- chaos,
- choler,
- common scold,
- commotion,
- convulsion,
- crank,
- craze,
- crosspatch,
- delirium,
- demon,
- devil,
- disturbance,
- dragon,
- ebullition,
- ecstasy,
- embroilment,
- excitement,
- fanaticism,
- feist,
- ferment,
- ferocity,
- fervency,
- fervidness,
- fervor,
- fever,
- fiend,
- fierceness,
- fire,
- fire and fury,
- fire-eater,
- firebrand,
- fishwife,
- fit,
- flap,
- fomentation,
- foofaraw,
- frenzy,
- fume,
- furious rage,
- furor,
- furore,
- fuss,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- grimalkin,
- grizzly bear,
- grouch,
- gunsel,
- gusto,
- hag,
- hardnose,
- heart,
- heartiness,
- heat,
- hell-raiser,
- hellcat,
- hellhag,
- hellhound,
- hellion,
- holy terror,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hothead,
- hotspur,
- hubbub,
- hysteria,
- impassionedness,
- impetuosity,
- incendiary,
- indignation,
- infatuation,
- intoxication,
- ire,
- Jezebel,
- killer,
- liveliness,
- mad,
- mad dog,
- madcap,
- madness,
- Mafioso,
- mania,
- Megaera,
- monster,
- mugger,
- murderous insanity,
- Nemesis,
- orgasm,
- orgy,
- overambitiousness,
- overanxiety,
- overanxiousness,
- overeagerness,
- overenthusiasm,
- overzealousness,
- pandemonium,
- paroxysm,
- passion,
- passionateness,
- psychokinesia,
- racket,
- rage,
- rancor,
- rapist,
- rapture,
- ravishment,
- relish,
- revolutionary,
- row,
- ruckus,
- rumpus,
- savage,
- savagery,
- savor,
- scold,
- seizure,
- she-devil,
- she-wolf,
- shrew,
- siren,
- sorehead,
- soul,
- spasm,
- spirit,
- spitfire,
- storminess,
- Tartar,
- tearing passion,
- tempestuousness,
- termagant,
- terror,
- terrorist,
- the Erinyes,
- the Eumenides,
- the Furies,
- tiger,
- tigress,
- Tisiphone,
- tough,
- tough guy,
- towering rage,
- transport,
- tumult,
- tumultuousness,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- ugly customer,
- uproar,
- upset,
- vehemence,
- verve,
- violence,
- violent,
- virago,
- vixen,
- warmth,
- warmth of feeling,
- wild beast,
- wildcat,
- wildness,
- witch,
- wolf,
- wrath,
- Young Turk,
- zeal,
- zealotism,
- zealotry,
- zealousness