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fury

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fury

1 a bad-tempered scolding woman

  • tradition has it that Socratesʼ wife was such a fury that the philosopherʼs death sentence by the authorities was not an entirely unwelcome fate
Synonyms of fury

battle-ax (or battle-axe), dragon lady, harpy, harridan, shrew, termagant, virago, vixen
Words Related to fury

fishwife, gorgon

carper, castigator, caviler (or caviller), censurer, critic, faultfinder, nitpicker, railer, scold

belittler, derider, detractor

pettifogger, quibbler

2 a state of wildly excited activity or emotion

  • the sudden appearance of the rock star whipped the crowd of onlookers into a fury of excitement
Synonyms of fury

agitation, deliriousness, delirium, distraction, fever, feverishness, flap, frenzy, furor, furore, hysteria, rage, rampage, uproar
Words Related to fury

chaos, confusion, disorder, havoc, pandemonium, turmoil

bedlam, bother, brouhaha, bustle, clamor, clatter, commotion, disturbance, fuss, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tempest, tumult
Near Antonyms of fury

calm, calmness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, quietude, repose, restfulness, sereneness, serenity, still, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility), tranquilness

3 an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something

  • in his fury, the duped gambler overturned the card table and declared that the game had been fixed
Synonyms of fury

anger, angriness, birse [chiefly Scottish], choler, furor, indignation, irateness, ire, lividity, lividness, mad, madness, mood [archaic], outrage, rage, spleen, wrath, wrathfulness
Words Related to fury

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

chafe, dander, dudgeon, huff, pet, rise, ruffle, temper

air rage, road rage

delirium, heat, passion, warmth
Phrases Synonymous with fury

slow burn
Near Antonyms of fury

calmness, forbearance, patience
Antonyms of fury

delight, pleasure

Synonym Discussion of fury

anger, ire, rage, fury, indignation, wrath mean an intense emotional state induced by displeasure. anger, the most general term, names the reaction but by itself does not convey cause or intensity.
    • tried to hide his anger
ire, more frequent in literary contexts, suggests an intense anger, often with an evident display of feeling.
    • cheeks flushed with ire
rage and fury suggest loss of self-control from violence of emotion.
    • shook with rage
    • could not contain his fury
indignation stresses righteous anger at what one considers unfair, mean, or shameful.
    • a comment that caused general indignation
wrath is likely to suggest a desire or intent to punish or get revenge.
    • I feared her wrath if I was discovered

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