furiously
/ˈfjʊə̯ɹi.ə̯sli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Quickly; frantically; with great effort or speed.
adv
Intensely, as with embarrassment.
Example Sentences
- "He glared furiously at the offender."
- "Case in point, as Lichfield detailed on Twitter last week: Almost as soon as the "hipster effect" article was published, a man furiously emailed the magazine claiming a photo of him was slanderously used alongside it without his permission. He was, it turned out, mistaken."
- "He tried furiously to get it to work before the deadline."
- "Again we set to and bailed furiously. Fortunately the storm had now quite gone by[.]"
- "“It was nonsense to pretend that he was afraid of the scandal, as no possible scandal could attach to him. This attitude of his gave me furiously to think, and I was slowly forced to the conclusion that Alfred Inglethorp wanted to be arrested.”"
- "Craig, who at twenty was taller than his father, blushed furiously as he practically threw two small boxes on the table in front of the twins. “Happy birthday”, he managed."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: furiously
Inflected Forms
more furiously (comparative)
most furiously (superlative)