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Definition of Fury
1. Noun. A feeling of intense anger. "His face turned red with rage"
Generic synonyms: Anger, Choler, Ire
Specialized synonyms: Wrath, Lividity
Derivative terms: Furious, Infuriate, Mad, Rage, Rage
2. Noun. State of violent mental agitation.
Specialized synonyms: Nympholepsy, Epidemic Hysertia, Mass Hysteria
Generic synonyms: Mania, Manic Disorder
Derivative terms: Craze, Crazy, Delirious, Delirious, Infuriate, Hysterical
3. Noun. The property of being wild or turbulent. "The storm's violence"
Generic synonyms: Intensity, Intensiveness
Specialized synonyms: Savageness, Savagery
Derivative terms: Ferocious, Fierce, Fierce, Fierce, Fierce, Furious, Furious, Furious, Furious, Vehement, Violent, Wild, Wild
4. Noun. (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals.
Category relationships: Classical Mythology
Generic synonyms: Mythical Creature, Mythical Monster
Specialized synonyms: Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone
Definition of Fury
1. n. A thief.
2. n. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
Definition of Fury
1. violent anger [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Fury
1. Origin: L. Furia, fr. Furere to rage: cf. F. Furie. Cf. Furor. 1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. 2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." "I do oppose my patience to his fury." (Shak) 3. The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides. "The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him." (Emerson) 4. One of the Parcae, or Fates, especially. Atropos. "Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life." (Milton) 5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant. Synonym: Anger, indignation, resentment, wrath, ire, rage, vehemence, violence, fierceness, turbulence, madness, frenzy. See Anger. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fury
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