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Furious vs Wrathy - What's the difference?

furious | wrathy |

As adjectives the difference between furious and wrathy

is that furious is transported with passion or fury; raging; violent while wrathy is feeling wrath; very angry, furious.

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

    wrathy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (US) Feeling wrath; very angry, furious.
  • *1834 , (David Crockett), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 64:
  • *:When I got there, the old lady appeared to be mighty wrathy ; and when I broached the subject, she looked at me as savage as a meat axe.
  • *2012 , (PZ Myers), (Reason Rally) speech, 24 Mar 2012:
    • There is a sin that is my favorite. It's one I indulge in several times a day. I kinda like — I really kinda like — wrath. And I am feeling wrathy today.