furiously

English

Etymology

From Middle English furiously; equivalent to furious +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊə̯ɹi.ə̯sli/
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Adverb

furiously (comparative more furiously, superlative most furiously)

In a furious manner; angrily.
He glared furiously at the offender.
- 2019 March 11, Josh Hafner, “All hipsters look alike? Man claims article's 'hipster' photo is him, only to be mistaken”, in USA Today‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 February 2024:
  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.
Quickly; frantically; with great effort or speed.
He tried furiously to get it to work before the deadline.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  Again we set to and bailed furiously. Fortunately the storm had now quite gone by[.]
- 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 179:
  “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.”
Intensely, as with embarrassment.
- 2004, Clara Mille, Under The Southern Cross, page 86:
  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.