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furious

adj
/ˈfjʊə.ɹɪəs/UK/ˈfjʊɹ.i.əs/US

Etymology

From Middle English furious, from Old French furieus, from Latin furiōsus. Displaced native Old English hātheort (literally “hot-hearted”).

  1. derived from furiōsus
  2. derived from furieus
  3. inherited from furious

Definitions

  1. Feeling great anger

    Feeling great anger; raging; violent.

    • a furious animal; parent furious at their child's behaviour
    • Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.

  2. Rushing with impetuosity

    Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.

    • a furious stream; a furious wind or storm

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at furious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01furious02violence03extreme04remote05distant06market07convenience08life09dynamic10energetic

A definitional loop anchored at furious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at furious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA