fury

1. 1.

   a feeling of intense anger

   “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”

   “his face turned red with rage”

   Synonymsragemadness

   Broaderanger

   Narrowerwrathlividity
2. 2.

   state of violent mental agitation

   Synonymscrazedeliriumfrenzyhysteria

   Broadermania

   Narrowernympholepsymass hysteria
3. 3.

   the property of being wild or turbulent

   “the storm's violence”

   Synonymsferocityfiercenessfuriousnessvehemenceviolencewildness

   Broaderintensity

   Narrowersavageness
4. 4.

   (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

   SynonymsEumenidesErinyes

   Broadermythical monster

   NarrowerAlectoMegaeraTisiphone

   classical mythology

Other forms of fury

plural

furies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fury

What does fury mean?

fury means "a feeling of intense anger". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fury?

fury has 2 syllables: fur-y. The stress falls on "fur". In IPA it is /ˈfjʊɹi/.

What is another word for fury?

Close synonyms include rage, madness, craze, delirium, frenzy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fury a common word?

fury is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.