Definitions for furor

furor fu·ror

Spelling: [fyoo r-awr, -er]
IPA: /ˈfyʊər ɔr, -ər/

Furor is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in furor (forru).

Definitions for furor

noun

  1. a general outburst of enthusiasm, excitement, controversy, or the like.
  2. a prevailing fad, mania, or craze.
  3. fury; rage; madness.

Origin of furor

1425-75; Latin: a raging; replacing late Middle English fureor Middle French

Examples for furor

They were not creating a furor with pink and lavender haystacks.

But the bill caused such a furor that it was quickly killed in committee.

Before the furor of 1876, how many scores of provincial English had?

But as the furor subsides and the thunder dies, most or all of those girls probably will remain captives.

It takes a transgression with real bite to inspire a furor of this intensity—Brangelina burn Jennifer!

But in the furor over the latest revelations, an even larger and more serious problem may be getting lost.

And what about this other thing—this furor epilepticus, whatever it is?

The app must have caused a furor, because by Monday, Google had already taken it down.

At about that time, an announcement was made that created a furor.

When the 'furor uterinus' seized her, nothing could keep her back.

Word Value for furor
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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