fury

Speech parts

1. fury - Noun

2. Fury - Proper noun

Meaning

A thief.

Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.

Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.

pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.

One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.

A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rage madness vehemence violence anger resentment wrath frenzy indignation ferocity ire fierceness storm passion temper
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Antonyms

bliss glee serenity content beauty ease
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Hypernyms

mania intensity anger ire choler intensiveness

Hyponyms

wrath savagery lividity Alecto savageness mass hysteria

Phrases with the word

sound and fury placate one's fury reduce one's fury go into a fury mass fury berserk fury

Derivatives

Furies

Examples

the storm's violence Source: Internet

hell hath no fury like a woman scorned Source: Internet

his face turned red with rage Source: Internet

A Blacktown City Netball junior, Woods joined the Panthers this season after winning an U23s premiership with GWS Fury last year. Source: Internet

Achilles tells Hector it is hopeless to expect that of him, declaring that "my rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw – such agonies you have caused me". Source: Internet

According to Niebuhr, "this pestilence must have raged with incredible fury; it carried off innumerable victims. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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