furiouslyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈfjʊə̯ɹi.ə̯sli/

副詞

furiously (comparative more furiously, superlative most furiously)

1. In a furious manner; angrily.

   He glared furiously at the offender.

   • 2019 March 11, Josh Hafner, “All hipsters look alike? Man claims article's 'hipster' photo is him, only to be mistaken”, in USA Today‎, archived from the original on 27 February 2024:

     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.

2. Quickly; frantically; with great effort or speed.

   He tried furiously to get it to work before the deadline.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Again we set to and bailed furiously. Fortunately the storm had now quite gone by[.]

   • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 179:

     “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.”

3. Intensely, as with embarrassment.
   • 2004, Clara Mille, Under The Southern Cross, page 86:

     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.

語源

From furious +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix).

発音

• IPA: /ˌfiu̯riˈuːsliː/, /ˈfiu̯riusli/, /-lit͡ʃ(ə)/

副詞

furiously

1. madly, forcefully, frantically

派生した語

• English: furiously

参照

• “fūriǒuslī, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.