furious
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English furious, from Old French furieus, from Latin furiōsus.
Pronunciation Adjectivefurious
- Feeling great anger; raging; violent.
- a furious animal; parent furious at their child's behaviour
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
- Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
- Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.
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