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Fuming vs Furious - What's the difference?

fuming | furious |

As adjectives the difference between fuming and furious

is that fuming is that fumes while furious is transported with passion or fury; raging; violent.

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.

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.

    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