fury

See also Fury

English

Etymology 1

From the Latin furia (“rage”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈfjʊri/, X-SAMPA: /"fjUri/

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Noun

fury (plural furies)

1. Extreme anger.
2. Strength or violence in action.
3. An angry or malignant person.
   • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 6, The Younger Set^[1]:

     “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, … !”

Derived terms

• furious

Translations

extreme anger

• Danish: raseri (da) n
• Dutch: razernij (nl) f
• Finnish: raivo (fi)
• German: Wut (de) f
• Hebrew: זעם (he) (zá'am) m
• Hungarian: düh (hu)
• Ido: furio (io)
• Italian: furia (it) f

• Macedonian: јарост (mk) (járost) f, бес (mk) (bes) m
• Maori: nguha (mi)
• Polish: furia (pl) f
• Portuguese: fúria (pt) f, ira (pt) f, furor (pt) m, cólera (pt) f
• Romanian: furie (ro), mânie (ro)
• Russian: ярость (ru) (járost') f, бешенство (ru) (b'éšenstvo) n, неистовство (ru) (n'eístovstvo) n
• Serbo-Croatian: jarost (sh) f
• Spanish: furia (es) f, rabia (es) f, furor (es) m
• Volapük: lezun (vo), vut (vo)

strength or violence in action

• Finnish: vimma (fi), kiihko (fi)

• Spanish: furia (es) f

an angry or malignant person

• German: Furie (de) f

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• French: acharnement m

Etymology 2

Latin fur (“thief”).

Noun

fury (plural furies)

1. (obsolete) A thief.
   • J. Fletcher

     Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.