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Despairing vs Furious - What's the difference?

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Despairing is a related term of furious.


As adjectives the difference between despairing and furious

is that despairing is feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless while furious is transported with passion or fury; raging; violent.

As a verb despairing

is .

As a noun despairing

is a mood or display of despair.

despairing

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mood or display of despair.
  • * (Thomas Carlyle)
  • But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdrockh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.

    furious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.
  • Derived terms

    * fast and furious * furiousness