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Antonyms for fury
ˈfyʊər ifu·ry

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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. fury

    Displeasure is the mildest and most general word. Choler and ire, now rare except in poetic or highly rhetorical language, denote a still, and the latter a persistent, anger. Temper used alone in the sense of anger is colloquial, tho we may correctly say a hot temper, a fiery temper, etc. Passion, tho a word of far wider application, may, in the singular, be employed to denote anger; "did put me in a towering passion," Shakespeare Hamlet act v, sc. 2. Anger is violent and vindictive emotion, which is sharp, sudden, and, like all violent passions, necessarily brief. Resentment (a feeling back or feeling over again) is persistent, the bitter brooding over injuries. Exasperation, a roughening, is a hot, superficial intensity of anger, demanding instant expression. Rage drives one beyond the bounds of prudence or discretion; fury is stronger yet, and sweeps one away into uncontrollable violence. Anger is personal and usually selfish, aroused by real or supposed wrong to oneself, and directed specifically and intensely against the person who is viewed as blameworthy. Indignation is impersonal and unselfish displeasure at unworthy acts (Latin indigna), i. e., at wrong as wrong. Pure indignation is not followed by regret, and needs no repentance; it is also more self-controlled than anger. Anger is commonly a sin; indignation is often a duty. Wrath is deep and perhaps vengeful displeasure, as when the people of Nazareth were "filled with wrath" at the plain words of Jesus (Luke iv, 28); it may, however, simply express the culmination of righteous indignation without malice in a pure being; as, the wrath of God. Impatience, fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, and vexation express the slighter forms of anger. Irritation, petulance, and vexation are temporary and for immediate cause. Fretfulness, pettishness, and peevishness are chronic states finding in any petty matter an occasion for their exercise. Compare ACRIMONY; ENMITY; HATRED.

    Antonyms:
    amiability, charity, forbearance, gentleness, leniency, lenity, long-suffering, love, mildness, patience, peace, peaceableness, peacefulness, self-control, self-restraint

    Synonyms:
    anger, animosity, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, impatience, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, resentment, temper, vexation, wrath

    Preposition:
    Anger at the insult prompted the reply. Anger toward the offender exaggerates the offense.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fury, rage, madnessnoun

    a feeling of intense anger

    "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"

    Synonyms:
    fad, hydrophobia, foolishness, furiousness, hysteria, craze, vehemence, insaneness, cult, rabidness, madness, ferocity, violence, delirium, passion, fierceness, furore, rabies, frenzy, rage, lyssa, folly, craziness, lunacy, wildness, rabidity, furor

  2. craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysterianoun

    state of violent mental agitation

    Synonyms:
    fad, hysterical neurosis, furiousness, hysteria, craze, vehemence, cult, madness, ferocity, violence, delirium, fierceness, furore, frenzy, rage, wildness, furor

  3. ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildnessnoun

    the property of being wild or turbulent

    "the storm's violence"

    Synonyms:
    rage, delirium, emphasis, craze, frenzy, abandon, madness, wildness, force, violence, vehemence, furiousness, ferocity, hysteria, fierceness

  4. Fury, Eumenides, Erinyesnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    frenzy, rage, madness, craze, violence, delirium, wildness, vehemence, hysteria, furiousness, ferocity, fierceness

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. furynoun

    Synonyms:
    wrath, rage, indignation, ire, frenzy, virago, termagant, shrew, vixen, beldame, xantippe, agitation, excitement, turbulence

How to use fury in a sentence?

  1. Milton Friedman:

    Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

  2. Randolph:

    Reprove not in their wrath incens?d men, Good counsel comes clean out of season then; But when his fury is appeased and past, He will conceive his fault and mend at last: When he is cool and calm, then utter it; No man gives physic in the midst o? th? fit.

  3. Akhenaten:

    As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

  4. Linda Flanagan:

    My son was awe-struck by that, sports have become a vehicle to convey your anger and fury at the world.

  5. Aaron Clarey:

    So do yourself and all men across the world a favor. Not only REFUSE to see the movie, but spread the word to as many men as possible. Not all of them have the keen eye we do here at (Return of Kings.) And most will be taken in by fire tornadoes and explosions. Because if they sheepishly attend and Fury Road is a blockbuster, then you, me, and all the other men (and real women) in the world will never be able to see a real action movie ever again that doesn't contain some damn political lecture or moray about feminism, SJW-ing, and socialism.

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