What's the difference between angry and furious?

Angry


Definition:

  • (superl.) Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
  • (superl.) Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
  • (superl.) Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
  • (superl.) Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves.
  • (superl.) Red.
  • (superl.) Sharp; keen; stimulated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet those who have remained committed have become ever more angry.
  • (2) But it still seemed unlikely, despite the angry and determined mood, that the kingdom would risk ground operations, informed sources said – not least because the main strongholds of Isis are far away in northeastern Syria and across the border in Iraq.
  • (3) He was angry that the journal had not asked him to review the paper, or at least comment on it, before publication.
  • (4) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
  • (5) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
  • (6) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
  • (7) I don't like it when people say, 'The youth are angry.
  • (8) But with this, they have managed to mobilise the young, and we are very angry.
  • (9) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
  • (10) 12.35pm BST Want to feel depressed and a bit angry at modern football?
  • (11) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
  • (12) RBS chief executive Ross McEwan apologised to consumers: “To say I’m angry would be an understatement.
  • (13) They’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college so they can’t retire with dignity.” One of the signs that voters still lack confidence in the US job market is the labor participation rate, which in 2015 reached its lowest point in 38 years.
  • (14) Conservative MPs and constituency chairmen have been handling hundreds of complaints from grassroots activists angry at David Cameron's desire to legalise gay marriage amid further defections from the party and resignations among rank and file members.
  • (15) Verbally abused children were more angry and more pessimistic about their future.
  • (16) But, as always, watch the Mail – and watch it fall into familiar angry mode.
  • (17) This is a dangerous moment for politics in Britain: it is not the moment to ignore or belittle the angry cry from voters telling us they are deeply sick of politics as usual.
  • (18) : Would you feel angry?, produced significantly more affirmative responses (reports of feeling angry) than non-inducing questions, e.g.
  • (19) This prompted an angry response from the bill's sponsors who accused opponents of using border security as an excuse to block any immigration reform.
  • (20) It was very tense, they were very angry, but we tried to be respectful, while explaining that I was doing my job taking photos.

Furious


Definition:

  • (a.) Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.
  • (a.) Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You have to prove there is a need.” Brian, a researcher with a PhD in medical science, was shocked and furious to find himself driven to food banks after a car accident, marital breakdown and sudden unemployment left him without enough money to live on.
  • (2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
  • (3) This was greeted by a furious wall of sound from Labour, which only grew when he added: "The last government failed to prioritise compassionate care … they tried to shut down the whistleblowers …" It was pure party-political point-scoring, matched in spades by Labour's Andy Burnham.
  • (4) When Barak reneged on his commitment to transfer the three Jerusalem villages - a commitment he had specifically authorised Clinton to convey to Arafat - Clinton was furious.
  • (5) April 2011: A furious Spurs launch judicial review of the decision , while Leyton Orient also launch a High Court challenge.
  • (6) Photograph: Fabio De Paola Thomas Howarth: student, Derby "There's this perception that you've got to be furiously depressed and lonely to listen to the Smiths," says Thomas Howarth, 18, from Derby.
  • (7) Beijing is furious at the Nobel committee's decision to give the award to Liu, who is serving an 11-year sentence for incitement to subversion for co-authoring Charter 08, an appeal for democratic reforms.
  • (8) However, at the time, he was furious that the Danish text which the US had received advance information about, had been leaked to the Guardian .
  • (9) China is furious at the decision to recognise Liu, jailed for incitement to subvert state power after co-authoring a call for democratic reforms.
  • (10) The electorate is furious - from members getting wives, partners and relatives on the parliamentary payroll to expense claims for duck houses, flipping and servants quarters."
  • (11) And to suggest that this isn't going to affect his job as a minister - he's not going to be taken seriously by the home secretary, who I understand is absolutely furious about his appointment.
  • (12) There are two fantasies about the British countryside that were given ample play in last week's furious debates about the rights and wrongs of building there.
  • (13) A furious David Cameron forced to him to stand down at the last general election.
  • (14) A furious row has broken out among local politicians over a proposal to build a nuclear waste dump in Kent.
  • (15) Despite MacMaster's assertion "I do not believe that I have harmed anyone", activists were furious.
  • (16) In 2015, Pence signed an anti-LGBT bill opponents said would allow wide-scale discrimination, kicking off a furious and costly boycott of the state by much of corporate America.
  • (17) The mayor is a good person, but no one invited him, certainly not officially … The pope was furious.” While the prank provided fodder to critics of the mayor, it also underscored a more serious issue between the Vatican and Rome just a few months ahead of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December.
  • (18) Red Sox manager John Farrell immediately and furiously made his way from the dugout to contest the decision.
  • (19) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
  • (20) Delivering ultimatums is a sorry way to go about a ministry, but we will hang on by our fingertips, sad and furious in equal measure, until the authority of women and men is accepted by the church we love but, at times like this, find impossible to defend.