different between furious vs wreakful

English

Etymology

From Old French furieus, from Latin furi?sus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fj??.???s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fj??.i.?s/, /?fj?.i.?s/
• Hyphenation: fu?ri?ous
• Rhymes: -???i?s

Adjective

furious (comparative more furious, superlative most furious)

1. Feeling great anger; raging; violent.
2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.

Derived terms

• fast and furious
• furiousness
• overfurious

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• wreakfull (obsolete)
• wreckful (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English wrakeful, equivalent to wreak +? -ful.

Adjective

wreakful (comparative more wreakful, superlative most wreakful)

1. (poetic or obsolete) Vengeful; angry, furious.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1:

     Ne any liv'd on ground that durst withstand / His dreadfull heast, much lesse him match in fight, / Or bide the horror of his wreakfull hand […].

   • 1802, The Spirit of Anti-Jacobinism:

     He sinks, to every wreakful fiend a prey; / His bosom shut to each affection kind; [...]

   • 1842, Thomas Miller, Rural Sketches:

     Unpropp'd, unsuccoured by stake or tree, / From wreakful storms' impetuous tyranny, [...]

Derived terms

• wreakfully

Related terms

• wreaker
• wreakless