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Angry vs Fuming - What's the difference?

angry | fuming |

As adjectives the difference between angry and fuming

is that angry is displaying or feeling anger while fuming is that fumes.

As a verb fuming is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun fuming is

the act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.

angry

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Displaying or feeling anger.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful.
    • The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm.
  • Dark and stormy, menacing.
    • Angry clouds raced across the sky.
  • * {{quote-book, 1756, (Christopher Smart), 3= The Book of the Epodes, chapter=Ode II, by=(Horace)
    • , passage=

    Synonyms

    * (displaying anger) mad, enraged, wrathful, furious, apoplectic; irritated, annoyed, vexed, pissed off, cheesed off, worked up, psyched up * See also

    Derived terms

    * angrily * angriness * Angry Young Man

    See also

    * (Anger)

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    fuming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that fumes
  • very angry
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 2 , author=Kevin Core , title=Fulham 6 - 0 QPR , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The first Premier League hat-trick by a Fulham player was taken in fine style, but it also exposed a slack defensive display which left QPR manager Neil Warnock fuming on the sidelines.}}

    Derived terms

    * fuming sulphuric acid

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who fumes or shows suppressed anger.
  • * 1840 , The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register
    • He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings , and threatenings, and stormings, were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.
  • * 1986 , John B. Sanford, The Waters of Darkness
    • And endlessly you'd read his fumings against the running dogs of capitalism, against the lackeys and the lumpen — and against you for being unable to collect a bill from his debtor.
  • * 1949 , New Brunswick Laboratory, Assayer's Guide
    • Evaporate, fume again, cool and wash down the sides of the beaker and watch glass, and then fume again. Your fumings are necessary to remove the cupferron decomposition products and nitric acid from the solution.