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Furious vs Rageful - What's the difference?

furious | rageful |

As adjectives the difference between furious and rageful

is that furious is transported with passion or fury; raging; violent while rageful is full of rage, enraged.

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

    rageful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • full of rage, enraged