fury Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a feeling of intense anger
    madness; rage.
    • hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
    • his face turned red with rage
  2. noun state of violent mental agitation
    delirium; frenzy; craze; hysteria.
  3. noun the property of being wild or turbulent
    violence; furiousness; wildness; fierceness; vehemence; ferocity.
    • the storm's violence
  4. noun (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
    Eumenides; Erinyes.

WordNet

Fu"ry noun
Etymology
L. fur.
Definitions
  1. A thief. Obs.
    Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. J. Fleteher.
Fu"ry noun
Etymology
L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. Furor.
Wordforms
plural Furies
Definitions
  1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. Sir P. Sidney.
  2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." Shak.
    I do oppose my patience to his fury. Shak.
  3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
    The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. Emerson.
  4. One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. R.
    Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. Milton.
  5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant. Syn. -- Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger.

Webster 1913