Furious vs Discourage - What's the difference?
furious | discourage |
Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent.
* , chapter=22
, title= Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.
To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
* Bible, Col. iii. 21
To persuade somebody not to do something.
* Abraham Lincoln
Lack of courage
As an adjective furious
is transported with passion or fury; raging; violent.As a verb discourage is
to extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.As a noun discourage is
lack of courage.furious
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Adjective
(en adjective)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.}}
Derived terms
* fast and furious * furiousnessdiscourage
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Verb
(discourag)- Don't be discouraged by the amount of work left to do: you'll finish it in good time.
- Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged .
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.