What does furiously mean?
Furiously means In a furious manner; angrily..
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/ˈfjʊə̯ɹi.ə̯sli/ · adverb
In a furious manner; angrily..
He glared furiously at the offender.
Case in point, as Lichfield detailed on Twitter last week: Almost as soon as the "hipster effect" article was published, a man furiously emailed the magazine claiming a photo of him was slanderously used alongside it without his permission. He was, it turned out, mistaken.
He tried furiously to get it to work before the deadline.
Again we set to and bailed furiously. Fortunately the storm had now quite gone by[.]
“It was nonsense to pretend that he was afraid of the scandal, as no possible scandal could attach to him. This attitude of his gave me furiously to think, and I was slowly forced to the conclusion that Alfred Inglethorp wanted to be arrested.”
Craig, who at twenty was taller than his father, blushed furiously as he practically threw two small boxes on the table in front of the twins. “Happy birthday”, he managed.
Use furiously when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Furiously means In a furious manner; angrily..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He glared furiously at the offender.
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