furiousadj.
/ˈfjʊərɪəs/, /ˈfjɔːrɪəs/, U.S. /ˈfjʊriəs/ 1. † c. Of pains, diseases, evil influences: Raging, cruel. Obsolete.
a. Of a person, an animal, etc.: Full of fury or fierce passion; mad with anger, zeal, or the like; raging, frantic. Also of actions, attributes, utterances: Proceeding from or exhibiting fury; fierce, raging, destructively or menacingly violent.
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the world > animals > by nature > [adjective] > wild or vicious
wildc725
wrothOE
keenOE
ramagec1300
fell?c1335
furiousc1374
fierce1377
ramageousa1398
eagerc1405
savage1447
naughtyc1460
criminal1477
ill1480
shrewd1509
mankind1519
roidc1540
mad1565
horn-mad1579
fierceful1607
man-keen1607
indomite1617
fellish1638
ferocious1646
ferousa1652
ferinea1676
kwaai1827
skelm1827
the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [adjective] > affected by violent emotion
woodc900
reighOE
mada1350
furiousc1374
raginga1425
savagea1450
rageous1486
frenetic?c1550
frantic1561
frenetical1588
impotent1596
transported1600
violent1601
turbulent1609
dementing1729
enfrenzied1823
wild1868
haywire1934
wigged-out1977
the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry
grim971
aweddeOE
woodlyc1000
anburstc1275
woodc1275
aburstc1300
eagerc1325
brotheful1330
brothely1330
furiousc1374
wroth as (the) wind1377
throc1380
fella1382
wrothlya1400
grindelc1400
raginga1425
furibund1490
bremit1535
outraging1567
fulminant?1578
wood-like1578
horn-mad1579
snuff1582
woodful1582
maddeda1586
rageful1585
furibundal1593
gary1609
fierce1611
wild1653
infuriate1667
hopping mad1675
maddened1735
sulphureous1751
savage1789
infuriated1796
bouncing mad1834
frenzy1859
furyinga1861
ropeable1870
furied1878
fulminous1886
livid1888
fit to be tied1894
hopping1894
fighting mad1896
tamping mad1946
up the wall1951
ravers1967
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > fiercely or furiously violent
bremec1175
wooda1250
furiousc1374
rabious1460
rageous1486
furibund1490
bremelya1500
orped1567
yond1590
rabid1594
the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective]
retheeOE
hotOE
strongOE
woodlyc1000
un-i-rideOE
stoura1122
brathc1175
unridec1175
unrudec1225
starklyc1275
toughc1275
wood1297
ragec1330
unrekena1350
biga1375
furialc1386
outrageousc1390
savagea1393
violenta1393
bremelya1400
snarta1400
wrothlya1400
fightingc1400
runishc1400
dour?a1425
derfc1440
churlousa1450
roida1450
fervent1465
churlish1477
orgulous1483
felona1500
brathfula1522
brathlya1525
fanatic1533
furious1535
boisterous1544
blusterous1548
ungentle1551
sore1563
full-mouthed1594
savage wild1595
Herculean1602
shrill1608
robustious1612
efferous1614
thundering1618
churly1620
ferocient1655
turbulent1656
efferate1684
knock-me-down1760
haggard-wild1786
ensanguined1806
rammish1807
fulminatory1820
riproarious1830
natural1832
survigrous1835
sabre-toothed1849
cataclysmal1861
thunderous1874
fierce1912
cataractal1926
c1374 G. Chaucer Compl. Mars 143 Now wol I speke of Mars, furious and wood.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems 157 Whan he [the lioun] is moost furious in his myhte, Ther comyth a quarteyn.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms vii. 6 Lift vp thyself ouer the furious indignacion of myne enemies.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias xxxvi. 87 a Heerevppon, they began in a furious outrage, running out of their dores like madde men.
1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. v. 15 When I shall execute iudgments in thee in anger and in furie, and in furious rebukes. View more context for this quotation
1641 in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 15 Aug. (1706) (O.H.S.) I. 285 Ye furiousest Presbyterians.
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon To Parl. sig. A2 The furious incitements which have been us'd.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 108 The furious Mare, Barr'd from the Male, is frantick with despair. View more context for this quotation
1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 62 Parties of religion are more furious.
a1853 F. W. Robertson Lect. (1858) ii. 58 Furious against every one whose words make them tremble at their own insecurity.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic I. i. iii. 217 The King, already enraged, was furious at the presentation of this petition.
1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 14 I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration.
b. transferred. Of the elements: Moving with or as if moved by fury, violent, raging.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > stormy > violent or raging
sharp1377
sticklec1450
angry1557
storming1557
furious1585
mad1594
rageful1595
angered1603
main1627
tearing1633
irrefrenary1658
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. vii. 80 If the water be too furious and deepe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 260 Feare no more..the furious Winters rages. View more context for this quotation
1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 126 It got a head after so furious a manner, that it set fire on the Ship itself.
1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 119 From the top is a view of the furious Stream.
a1800 W. Cowper Cast-away in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1803) II. 121 The furious blast.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxiv. 196 Blowing a furious gale.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective]
anguishous?c1225
wounding?c1225
asperc1374
derflya1400
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
fretting1413
piercingc1450
anguish1477
piquant1521
anguishing?1566
plaguing1566
asperous?1567
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
wringing1576
cutting1582
tormentous1583
tormentful1596
tormentuous1597
racking1598
torturous1600
lacerating1609
torturing1611
tearinga1616
heart-aching1620
breast-rending1625
crucifying1648
tormentative1654
martyring?a1656
tormentive1655
discruciating1658
cruciatory1660
anguishful1685
brain-racking1708
probing1749
agonized1793
anguished1803
harrowing1810
vulnerary1821
grinding1869
torturesome1889
wrenching1889
tortuous1922
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > relating to agony or torment > causing agony or torment
sharpc1000
grievousc1290
smartc1300
fellc1330
unsufferablea1340
keena1375
poignantc1390
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
stoutc1425
unbearablec1449
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
cruciable1578
raging1590
tormentuous1597
pungent1598
racking1598
acute1615
wrenching1618
excruciating1664
grinding1681
excruciate1773
discruciating1788
unendurable1801
of bare sufferance1823
perialgic1893
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > violent or severe
grimc900
strongeOE
grievousc1290
burning1393
acutea1398
maliciousa1398
peracutea1398
sorea1400
wicked14..
malign?a1425
vehement?a1425
malignousc1475
angrya1500
cacoethe?1541
eager?1543
virulent1563
malignant1568
raging1590
roaring1590
furious1597
grassant1601
hearty1601
sharp1607
main1627
generous1632
perperacute1647
serious1655
ferine1666
bad1705
severe1725
unfavourable1782
grave1888
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 393 In langour and in torment furyus.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1544) i. viii. 14 Folke were there blent with furious darkenes.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 211 In fureous payne.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 270 The headach proceeding of heat in furious agues.
1627 Abp. G. Abbot in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 434 Some furious infirmities of Body.
d. fast and furious: (of mirth) eager, uproarious, noisy. Also adv., rapidly, uproariously, noisily.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [adjective] > eager or noisy (of merriment)
fast and furious1790
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [adjective] > uproar or tumult
obstreperousc1600
clamouring1635
panic1642
pandemoniana1788
rackety1787
fast and furious1790
uproarious1818
racketing1843
pandemoniacal1862
whooping1866
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase]
on fastec1275
as greyhound (let out) of leasha1300
a good (also great, etc.) shake13..
in hastec1300
(wiþ) gret yre13..
in speeda1325
good speeda1400
on (also upon) the wing or one's wing1508
with post1569
on or upon the speed1632
on the run?1679
by the run1787
like a house on fire (also afire)1809
at the double-quick1834
with a run1834
fast and furious1851
at the double1860
at the rate of knots1892
for (or on) the (high) jump1905
like blue murder1914
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [adverb] > uproar or tumult
uproariously1838
fast and furious1851
1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 561 The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. iii. 50 Fast and furious grew the mirth of the parties.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxiv. 409 He swam so fast and furious.
1859 A. Robertson Let. 10 Feb. in Dearest Child (1964) 162 The dancing was resumed, and..they were going on at it ‘fast and furious’.
1899 Tit-Bits 29 Apr. 103/1 Pictures came fast and furious.
1931 Week-end Rev. 21 Nov. 654/2 The fun is fast and furious.
2. hyperbolically (after French use): Excessive, extravagant. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > extravagant, excessive
overdoinga1425
ramping1484
egregious1566
desperatea1568
outlandish1588
hyperbolical1589
furious1671
wanton1680
outré1722
steep1856
plush horse1936
1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iii. 33 What a furious indigence of Ribands is here upon my head!
1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love v. 73 I will do my best to disingage my heart from this furious tender which I have for him.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 7 Without a suspicion..of his own furious romancing.
3. Mad, insane. Obsolete except in Scots Law.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with
woodc725
woodsekc890
giddyc1000
out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000
witlessc1000
brainsickOE
amadc1225
lunaticc1290
madc1330
sickc1340
brain-wooda1375
out of one's minda1387
frenetica1398
fonda1400
formada1400
unwisea1400
brainc1400
unwholec1400
alienate?a1425
brainless1434
distract of one's wits1470
madfula1475
furious1475
distract1481
fro oneself1483
beside oneself1490
beside one's patience1490
dementa1500
red-wood?1507
extraught1509
misminded1509
peevish1523
bedlam-ripe1525
straughta1529
fanatic1533
bedlama1535
daft1540
unsounda1547
stark raving (also staring) mad1548
distraughted1572
insane1575
acrazeda1577
past oneself1576
frenzy1577
poll-mad1577
out of one's senses1580
maddeda1586
frenetical1588
distempered1593
distraught1597
crazed1599
diswitted1599
idle-headed1599
lymphatical1603
extract1608
madling1608
distracteda1616
informala1616
far gone1616
crazy1617
March mada1625
non compos mentis1628
brain-crazed1632
demented1632
crack-brained1634
arreptitiousa1641
dementate1640
dementated1650
brain-crackeda1652
insaniated1652
exsensed1654
bedlam-witteda1657
lymphatic1656
mad-like1679
dementative1685
non compos1699
beside one's gravity1716
hyte1720
lymphated1727
out of one's head1733
maddened1735
swivel-eyed1758
wrong1765
brainsickly1770
fatuous1773
derangedc1790
alienated1793
shake-brained1793
crack-headed1796
flighty1802
wowf1802
doitrified1808
phrenesiac1814
bedlamite1815
mad-braineda1822
fey1823
bedlamitish1824
skire1825
beside one's wits1827
as mad as a hatter1829
crazied1842
off one's head1842
bemadded1850
loco1852
off one's nut1858
off his chump1864
unsane1867
meshuga1868
non-sane1868
loony1872
bee-headed1879
off one's onion1881
off one's base1882
(to go) off one's dot1883
locoed1885
screwy1887
off one's rocker1890
balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891
meshuggener1892
nutty1892
buggy1893
bughouse1894
off one's pannikin1894
ratty1895
off one's trolley1896
batchy1898
twisted1900
batsc1901
batty1903
dippy1903
bugs1904
dingy1904
up the (also a) pole1904
nut1906
nuts1908
nutty as a fruitcake1911
bugged1920
potty1920
cuckoo1923
nutsy1923
puggled1923
blah1924
détraqué1925
doolally1925
off one's rocket1925
puggle1925
mental1927
phooey1927
crackers1928
squirrelly1928
over the edge1929
round the bend1929
lakes1934
ding-a-ling1935
wacky1935
screwball1936
dingbats1937
Asiatic1938
parlatic1941
troppo1941
up the creek1941
screwed-up1943
bonkers1945
psychological1952
out to lunch1955
starkers1956
off (one's) squiff1960
round the twist1960
yampy1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
out of one's skull1967
whacked out1969
batshit1971
woo-woo1971
nutso1973
out of (one's) gourd1977
wacko1977
off one's meds1986
1475 Sc. Acts Jas. III (1814) II. 112 The Inquest fyndis þat he was ouder fule or furiouss.
1564 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 135 She, beinge seruaunt with the testatrix, did neuer knowe that euer she was Lunatike or furiouse.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxiv. 155 Neither furious persons nor children can receiue any ciuill stipulation.
1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. Robert I in Regiam Majestatem 33 Fvrious men sould be taken, and keiped be their friends.
1642 J. Spelman View of Observ. upon His Majesties Late Answers 10 Except the King be Captive, furious, or in his infancy.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. i. vi. 61 Ideots..and furious persons cannot marry.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective]
dizzyc825
unwisec825
redelessOE
unwittyc1000
daftlikec1175
witlessc1175
canga1225
adoted?c1225
cangun?c1225
egedec1225
cangeda1250
foola1250
snepea1250
aerwittec1275
sotlyc1275
unslyc1275
unwitterc1275
unwilya1300
nicec1300
goosishc1374
unskilfulc1374
follyc1380
lewdc1380
mis-feelinga1382
dottlec1390
foltedc1390
peevishc1400
fona1425
fonnishc1425
foliousa1450
foolisha1450
daft?c1450
doitedc1450
dotyc1450
daffish1470
insapientc1470
gucked?a1500
wanwittya1500
furious1526
insipient1528
seelya1529
dawish?1529
foolage1545
momish1546
base-wittedc1547
stultitiousa1549
follifulc1550
senseless1565
mopish1568
fondish1579
unsensiblea1586
fondly1587
dizzardly1594
follial1596
featlessc1598
fopperly1599
gowkeda1605
inept1604
simple1604
anserine1607
foppish1608
silly ass1608
unsage1608
wisdomless1608
fool-beggeda1616
Gotham1621
noddy1645
badot1653
dosser-headed1655
infrunite1657
nonsensicalc1661
slight1663
sappy1670
datelessa1686
noddy-peaked1694
nizy1709
dottled1772
gypit1804
shay-brained1806
folly-stricken1807
fool-like1811
goosy1811
spoony1813
niddle-noddle1821
gumptionless1823
daftish1825
anserous1826
as crazy as a loon1830
spoonish1833
cheese-headed1836
dotty1860
fool-fool1868
noodly1870
dilly1873
gormless1883
daffy1884
monkey-doodle1886
mosy1887
jay1891
pithecanthropic1897
peanut-headed1906
dinlo1907
boob1911
goofy1921
ding-a-ling1935
jerky1944
jerk1947
jerkish1948
pointy-headed1950
doofus1967
twitty1967
twittish1969
nerkish1975
numpty1992
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. UUUi In their moste furiouse and false opinion, they iudged hym a dissembler and an ypocrite.
1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes I. §62 I haue euer found, that to striue with my superiour is furious, with my equall doubtfull.
Compounds
furious-curious, furious-faced adjs.; furious-wise adv.
ΚΠ
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 378 Dauncing, foaming, rowling furious-wise.
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Little Bartas in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 773 The furious-curious Spell Of those Black-Artists.
1636 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 174 To go through a furious faced death to life eternal!
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adj.c1374- go there
- go thin
- go through
- go through a phase
- go through channels
- go through hell and back
- go through hell and back again
- go through hoop
- go through hoops
- go through one's facings
- go through one'the facings
- go through something with a fine-tooth comb
- go through something with a finetooth comb
- go through the hard
- go through the hards
- go through the heckle pins
- go through the hoop
- go through the hoops
- go through the mill
- go through the motions
- go through the roof
- go through with a fine-tooth comb
- go through with a finetooth comb
- go through-stitch
- go throughstitch