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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
fury (noun)
1.
intense, disordered, and often destructive rage
2.
a) capitalized any of the avenging deities in Greek mythology who torment criminals and inflict plagues
b) an avenging spirit
c) one who resembles an avenging spirit , especially a spiteful woman
3.
extreme fierceness or violence
4.
a state of inspired exaltation - frenzy anger
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
fury (noun)
1.
a bad-tempered scolding woman
SYNONIMS:
battle-ax ( battle-axe), dragon lady, fury, harpy, harridan, termagant, virago, vixen
RELATED WORDS:
fishwife, gorgon; carper, castigator, caviler ( caviller), censurer, critic, faultfinder, nitpicker, railer, scold; belittler, derider, detractor; pettifogger, quibbler
fury (noun)
2.
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion
SYNONIMS:
agitation, deliriousness, delirium, distraction, fever, feverishness, flap, furor, furore, fury, hysteria, rage, rampage, uproar
RELATED WORDS:
chaos, confusion, disorder, havoc, pandemonium, turmoil; bedlam, bother, brouhaha, bustle, clamor, clatter, commotion, disturbance, fuss, hoo-ha ( hoo-hah), hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tempest, tumult
NEAR ANTONYMS:
calm, calmness, peace, peacefulness, placidity, quiet, quietude, repose, restfulness, sereneness, serenity, still, stillness, tranquillity ( tranquility), tranquilness
fury (noun)
3.
an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something
SYNONIMS:
angriness, birse, choler, furor, fury, indignation, irateness, ire, lividity, lividness, mad, madness, mood, outrage, rage, spleen, wrath, wrathfulness
RELATED WORDS:
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
NEAR ANTONYMS:
calmness, forbearance, patience
delight, pleasure

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