Calm and Furious

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Calm adjective – (of weather) free from storm or wind.

Usage example: calm seas

Furious is an antonym for calm in topics: composed, peaceful.

Nearby Words: calmness, calmed, calming, calmly

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Furious adjective – Marked by great and often stressful excitement or activity.

Usage example: everyone worked at a furious pace in order to get the float ready for the parade

Calm is an antonym for furious in topics: angry, stormy, very mad.

Nearby Words: fury, furiously

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reaction	calm reaction	furious reaction
response	calm response	furious response
man	calm man	furious man
state	calm state	furious state
Other nouns: speech, look, face, expression, members.

Of course, this means he also often overshoots the trope by looking furious rather than calm.

Source: Comic Strip / Beetle Bailey
And Balalaika is almost always calm, controlled and polite, even when she's furious.

Source: Tranquil Fury
And while the Earth Fairies are very nice when calm, when furious they become The Fair Folk, genocidal tendencies included.

Source: Beware The Nice Ones / Western Animation

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