FURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fury mean? 

• FURY (noun)
  The noun FURY has 4 senses:

1. a feeling of intense anger

2. state of violent mental agitation

3. the property of being wild or turbulent

4. (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

  Familiarity information: FURY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of intense anger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

fury; madness; rage

Context example:

his face turned red with rage

Hypernyms ("fury" is a kind of...):

anger; choler; ire (a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fury"):

wrath (intense anger (usually on an epic scale))

lividity (a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored)

Derivation:

furious (marked by extreme anger)

infuriate (make furious)

Sense 2

Meaning:

State of violent mental agitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

craze; delirium; frenzy; fury; hysteria

Hypernyms ("fury" is a kind of...):

mania; manic disorder (a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fury"):

nympholepsy (a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable)

epidemic hysertia; mass hysteria (a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation)

Derivation:

infuriate (make furious)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The property of being wild or turbulent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ferocity; fierceness; furiousness; fury; vehemence; violence; wildness

Context example:

the storm's violence

Hypernyms ("fury" is a kind of...):

intensity; intensiveness (high level or degree; the property of being intense)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fury"):

savageness; savagery (the property of being untamed and ferocious)

Derivation:

furious ((of the elements) as if showing violent anger)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Erinyes; Eumenides; Fury

Instance hypernyms:

mythical creature; mythical monster (a monster renowned in folklore and myth)

Domain category:

classical mythology (the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Fury"):

Alecto; Megaera; Tisiphone (one of the three Furies)

 Context examples 

The fury upon his face was terrible to look at.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have started up so vividly impressed by it, that its fury has yet seemed raging in my quiet room, in the still night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The fury of blows continued to rain down.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The mere sight of Beauty Smith was sufficient to send him into transports of fury.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then the rope tightened mercilessly, while Buck struggled in a fury, his tongue lolling out of his mouth and his great chest panting futilely.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Poor soul! I pity HER. And I must say, I think she was used very hardly; for your sister scolded like any fury, and soon drove her into a fainting fit.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He seemed possessed by an insatiable fury which gave no time for grief.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Her sisters used to say that they rather liked to get Jo into a fury because she was such an angel afterward.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And this man I bent over—this commonplace, quiet stranger—how had he become involved in the web of horror? and why had the Fury flown at him?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)