 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
furious
adjective
1: marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating";
"fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: {ferocious},
{fierce}, {savage}]
2: marked by extreme anger; "the enraged bull attached";
"furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl";
"infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating
the boy"; "could not control the maddened crowd" [syn: {angered},
{enraged}, {infuriated}, {maddened}]
3: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds
on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: {angry},
{raging}, {tempestuous}, {wild}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Furious \Fu"ri*ous\, adjective [L. furiosus, fr. furia rage, fury: cf.
F. furieux. See {Fury}.]
1. Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a
furious animal.
2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a
furious stream; a furious wind or storm.
Syn: Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent;
tumultuous; angry; mad; frantic; frenzied. --
{Fu"ri*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Fu"ri*ous*ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
189 Moby Thesaurus words for "furious":
Dionysiac, abandoned, accident-prone, acute, amok, anarchic, angry,
at fever pitch, bacchic, bellowing, berserk, bewildered,
blustering, blusterous, blustery, boiling, breakneck, browned off,
careless, carried away, chaotic, coarse, concentrated, corybantic,
crazed, cursory, cutting, delirious, demented, demoniac, desperate,
devil-may-care, dirty, distracted, drastic, ecstatic, enraged,
enraptured, enthusiastic, excessive, excited, exorbitant,
expeditious, exquisite, fanatic, fanatical, febrile, feral,
ferocious, festinate, feverish, fierce, fiery, fighting mad,
flying, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, great,
haggard, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hectic, hellish, hog-wild,
hopping mad, hotheaded, howling, hurried, hysteric, hysterical,
immediate, immoderate, impetuous, in a rage, in a tizzy,
in a transport, in hysterics, incensed, infatuated, infuriate,
infuriated, inordinate, insane, insensate, instant, intemperate,
intense, intoxicated, irate, irrational, keen, last-minute,
like one possessed, livid, mad, maddened, madding, maenadic,
maniac, maniacal, mindless, on the spot, orgasmic, orgastic,
orgiastic, outrageous, overanxious, overdesirous, overeager,
overenthusiastic, overzealous, pandemoniac, passing, passionate,
perfervid, piercing, pissed off, possessed, precipitant,
precipitate, precipitous, prompt, provoked, quick, rabid, raging,
ramping, ranting, ravening, raving, raving mad, ravished, reckless,
rigorous, rip-roaring, roaring, roaring mad, rough, running mad,
running wild, savage, severe, sharp, simmering, slap-bang,
slapdash, snap, speedy, splitting, stark-raving mad, steaming,
stimulated, storming, stormy, superficial, swift, tempestuous,
terrible, tornadic, tough, transported, troublous, tumultuous,
turbulent, ultrazealous, unconscionable, uncontrollable,
unreasonable, unrestrained, up in arms, uproarious, upset, urgent,
vehement, venomous, vicious, violent, virulent, volcanic, wanton,
wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, wrathful, wroth
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