FURIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does furious mean? 

• FURIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective FURIOUS has 3 senses:

1. marked by extreme and violent energy

2. marked by extreme anger

3. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger

  Familiarity information: FURIOUS used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by extreme and violent energy

Synonyms:

ferocious; fierce; furious; savage

Context example:

a furious battle

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by extreme anger

Synonyms:

angered; enraged; furious; infuriated; maddened

Context example:

could not control the maddened crowd

Similar:

angry (feeling or showing anger)

Derivation:

furiousness (the property of being wild or turbulent)

fury (a feeling of intense anger)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of the elements) as if showing violent anger

Synonyms:

angry; furious; raging; tempestuous; wild

Context example:

the raging sea

Similar:

stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)

Derivation:

furiousness; fury (the property of being wild or turbulent)

 Context examples 

Again I advanced, but he repulsed me with a look of furious anger.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was now half-past five, and half-an-hour later, when the last of the day lost itself in a dim and furious twilight, I sighted a third boat.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When he saw me he became furious, and had not the attendants seized him in time, he would have tried to kill me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Dog!” cried the furious Socman, “there is no man in the south who can say as much.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"But what we found, in four separate cases, were neighboring galaxies that were forming stars at a furious pace, producing a hundred solar masses' worth of new stars per year," Decarli explained.

(Stunning Star Birth in Earliest Galaxies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In addition, the observations have provided better measurements of Mrk 335's furious relativistic spin rate.

(NuSTAR sees rare blurring of black hole light, NASA)

I was conscious, even when I took the draught, of a more unbridled, a more furious propensity to ill.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I would not have trusted her with the rack itself, while that furious look lasted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Challenger was too furious to speak.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, sir; that I am certain I could not; and therefore I see there is but one way: but you will be furious if I mention it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)