furious
adj/ˈfjʊəɹi.əs/ · /ˈfjɔːɹi.əs/
Etymology From Middle English furious, from Old French furieus, from Latin furiōsus. Displaced native Old English hātheort (literally “hot-hearted”).
1
Feeling great anger; raging; violent.
- a furious animal; parent furious at their child's behaviour
- 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
2
Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.
- a furious stream; a furious wind or storm
- Derived terms
- fast and furious, frumious, furious fifties, furiousness, furious rabies, overfurious, unfurious