Definition of fury Fury

/fjʊˈɹi/ - [fyuree] - fu•ry

We found 16 definitions of fury from 6 different sources.

What does fury mean?

Noun Plural: furies
fury - a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"
		rage, madness
		ire, anger, choler a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
		wrath belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
fury - (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
		Eumenides, Erinyes
		classical mythology the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks
		alecto one of the three Furies
		megaera one of the three Furies
fury - the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
		ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, vehemence, violence, wildness
		intensiveness, intensity high level or degree; the property of being intense
fury - state of violent mental agitation
		craze, delirium, frenzy, hysteria
		manic disorder, mania an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
		nympholepsy a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable

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fury (n.)
A thief.
fury (n.)
Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
fury (n.)
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
fury (n.)
pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
fury (n.)
One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
fury (n.)
A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

fury
fū′ri, n. rage: violent passion: madness: (myth.) one of the three goddesses of fate and vengeance, the Erinyes, or euphemistically Eumenides—Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra—hence a passionate, violent woman. [Fr. furie—L. furia—furĕre, to be angry.]

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