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furor
Synonyms and Antonyms of furor
- the classroom was in a furor when the mice escaped from their cage
ado, alarums and excursions, ballyhoo, blather, bluster, bobbery, bother, bustle, clatter, clutter [chiefly dialect], coil, commotion, corroboree [Australian], disturbance, do [chiefly dialect], foofaraw, fun, furore, fuss, helter-skelter, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hoopla, hubble-bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly, hurly-burly, hurricane, hurry, hurry-scurry (or hurry-skurry), kerfuffle [chiefly British], moil, pandemonium, pother, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, splore [Scottish], squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar, welter, whirl, williwaw, zoo
calm, hush, peace, quiet, quietude, rest, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility)
- euphoric children in a gift-opening furor on Christmas morning
agitation, deliriousness, delirium, distraction, fever, feverishness, flap, frenzy, furore, fury, hysteria, rage, rampage, uproar
calm, calmness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, quietude, repose, restfulness, sereneness, serenity, still, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility), tranquilness
- residents were in a furor about the new paper mill being constructed within city limits
aggravation, annoyance, exasperation, irritation, vexation
acrimoniousness, acrimony, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bile, biliousness, bitterness, contempt, embitterment, empoisonment, enmity, grudge, hostility, rancor
envy, jaundice, jealousy, pique, resentment
malevolence, malice, spite, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol
belligerence, contentiousness, contrariness, crankiness, disputatiousness, hot-headedness, irascibility, irascibleness, irritability, orneriness, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, querulousness
blowup, flare, flare-up, outburst
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