fury

/ˈfjuri/

/ˈfjɔri/

Other forms: furies

Violent, angry, and ferocious, fury is a feeling of wild, intense anger. Before you let your fury get the best of you, it's good to take a few deep breaths before you speak.

Fury is anger times ten — it's unrestrained and maybe a little scary. If you've ever seen a little kid have a raging temper tantrum because it was time to leave the park, you have an idea of what fury looks — and sounds — like. Fury can also describe aspects of nature, like the fury of a hurricane. In Greek mythology, a fury was a spirit of punishment, named for the three Furies, goddesses who punished the guilty.

Definitions of fury

1. noun

   the property of being wild or turbulent
   synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, vehemence, violence, wildness

   types:

   savageness, savagery

   the property of being untamed and ferocious

   type of:

   intensity, intensiveness

   high level or degree; the property of being intense
2. noun

   a feeling of intense anger
   “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”

   synonyms: madness, rage

   types:

   wrath

   intense anger (usually on an epic scale)

   lividity

   a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored

   type of:

   anger, bile, choler, ire

   anger; irritability
3. noun

   state of violent mental agitation
   synonyms: craze, delirium, frenzy, hysteria

   types:

   nympholepsy

   a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable

   epidemic hysertia, mass hysteria

   a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation

   type of:

   mania, manic disorder

   a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently