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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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
furiously
adverb
1: (of the elements) in a wild and stormy manner; "winds were blowing furiously"
2: in a manner marked by extreme or violent energy; "the boys fought furiously"; "she went peddling furiously up the narrow street"
3: in an impassioned or very angry manner; "she screamed furiously at her tormentors"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "furiously": a corps perdu, all to pieces, amain, angrily, apace, at once, by forced marches, carelessly, cursorily, deliriously, demonically, desperately, distractedly, expeditiously, fanatically, feverishly, fiercely, frantically, frenetically, frenziedly, hand over fist, happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heatedly, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, holus-bolus, hotfoot, hotheadedly, hotly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, immediately, impetuously, in anger, in hot blood, in passing, indignantly, infuriatedly, infuriately, insensately, instantly, irately, like blazes, like crazy, like fury, like mad, like one possessed, madly, mindlessly, on the run, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, pell-mell, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, promptly, quickly, rabidly, ramble-scramble, recklessly, rigorously, riotously, severely, slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash, speedily, stormily, superficially, swiftly, tempestuously, troublously, turbulently, uncontrollably, uproariously, vehemently, venomously, violently, virulently, wantonly, wildly, with a rush, with a vengeance, with all haste, with dispatch, with haste
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