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Furious vs Breakneck - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between furious and breakneck

is that furious is transported with passion or fury; raging; violent while breakneck is dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.

As a noun breakneck is

a fall that breaks the neck.

furious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent.
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    • , 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

    breakneck

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
    • He came running around the corner at a breakneck pace and couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the fruit stand.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fall that breaks the neck.
  • A dangerous steep place from which one could fall.