fury
sostantivosostantivocorrente nei dialoghi
- Regno Unito//ˈfjʊə.ɹi//
- Regno Unito//ˈfjɔːɹi//
- Stati Uniti//ˈfjʊɹ.i//
- Stati Uniti//ˈfjɝ.i//
- Scozia//ˈfjʉːɹi//
Extreme anger.
sostantivo
- 1
Extreme anger.
Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.
The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury.
- 2
Strength or violence in action.
Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide, / And with the winde in greater furie fret: / The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.
I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,[…]!
- 3
An angry or malignant person.
Etimologia
From Middle English furie, from Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”).
sostantivo
- 1
obsoletoA thief.
But have an eye to your plate , for there be Furies.
Etimologia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr Proto-Italic *fōr Latin furbor. English fury Borrowed from Latin fur (“thief”).
Forme
- plurale
- furies