adj. 25B6; adjective
he was furious when he learned about it : ENRAGED, infuriated, very angry, irate, incensed, raging, incandescent, fuming, ranting, raving, seething, beside oneself, outraged; informal mad, hopping mad, wild, livid, boiling, apoplectic, hot under the collar, on the warpath, foaming at the mouth, steamed up, in a paddy, fit to be tied; poetic/literary wrathful.
a furious debate : HEATED, hot, passionate, fiery, lively; fierce, vehement, violent, wild, unrestrained, tumultuous, turbulent, tempestuous, stormy.
calm.