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Definitions for Fury

[1] unrestrained or violent anger, rage, passion, or the like: The gods unleashed their fury on the offending mortal.
[2] violence; vehemence; fierceness: the fury of a hurricane; a fury of creative energy.
[3] Furies, Classical Mythology . minor female divinities: the daughters of Gaea who punished crimes at the instigation of the victims: known to the Greeks as the Erinyes or Eumenides and to the Romans as the Furiae or Dirae. Originally there were an indefinite number, but were later restricted to Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone.
[4] a fierce and violent person, especially a woman: She became a fury when she felt she was unjustly accused.
[5] like fury , Informal . violently; intensely: It rained like fury.
[6] violent or uncontrolled anger; wild rage
[7] an outburst of such anger
[8] uncontrolled violence the fury of the storm
[9] a person, esp a woman, with a violent temper
[10] See Furies
[11] like fury informal violently; furiously they rode like fury

Words related to Fury

madness, rage, frenzy, energy, violence, ire, acrimony, intensity, passion, storm, furor, ferocity, indignation, savagery, severity, power, conniption, fire, rise, acerbity

Words nearby Fury

furtwängler, furuncle, furunculoid, furunculosis, furunculus, fury, furze, fusain, fusan, fusarium, fusarium wilt

Origin of Fury

1325–75; Middle English < Latin furia rage, equivalent to fur(ere ) to be angry, rage + -ia -y2

Words that may be confused with Fury

furore, fury

Word origin for Fury

C14: from Latin furia rage, from furere to be furious

Synonyms for Fury

acrimony, energy, ferocity, frenzy, furor, indignation, intensity, ire, madness, passion, rage, storm, violence, acerbity, asperity, conniption, fierceness, fire, flare-up, force, impetuosity, might, power, rabidity, rise, savagery, severity, sore, stew, tempestuousness, turbulence, vehemence, boiling point, rampancy, slow burn