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FURIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by extreme anger
Example:
could not control the maddened crowd
Synonyms:
angered; enraged; furious; infuriated; maddened
Classified under:
Similar:
angry (feeling or showing anger)
Derivation:
furiousness (the property of being wild or turbulent)
fury (a feeling of intense anger)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger
Example:
the raging sea
Synonyms:
angry; furious; raging; tempestuous; wild
Classified under:
Similar:
stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)
Derivation:
furiousness; fury (the property of being wild or turbulent)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Marked by extreme and violent energy
Example:
a furious battle
Synonyms:
ferocious; fierce; furious; savage
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
violent (acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity)
Derivation:
furiousness (the property of being wild or turbulent)
Context examples:
White Fang burst into no furious outcry. It was not his way.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
They stopped when they heard the call, but looking round and seeing nobody, they went on again with their fighting, which now became more furious.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The general was furious in his anger, and they parted in dreadful disagreement.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Memory brought madness with it, and when I thought of what had passed, a real insanity possessed me; sometimes I was furious and burnt with rage, sometimes low and despondent.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
This forcefulness would make you furious that the school would do this to the entire student body. (I heard about a case like this, so this is not an imaginary situation.)
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Oldacre gave an uneasy laugh, shrinking back from the furious red face of the angry detective.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They began to scramble out of the excavation, darting furious glances behind them.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long a continuance, as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Once, Martin met Gertrude on the street, down in Oakland, and learned what he knew could not be otherwise—that Bernard Higginbotham was furious with him for having dragged the family into public disgrace, and that he had forbidden him the house.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For my own part, I had been so struck by the furious manner in which these belated travellers were approaching, that I had continued to watch them with all sorts of vague hopes within me, which I did not dare to put into words for fear of adding to my uncle’s disappointments.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
