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tempestuous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tempestuous has 2 senses
- tempestuous(s = adj.all) stormy - characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage" Derived forms noun tempest1, noun tempestuousness2
- tempestuous(s = adj.all) angry, furious, raging, wild - (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" Derived forms noun tempest2, noun tempestuousness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
tempestuous, a. [L. tempestuous: cf. OF. tempestueux, F. tempêtueux.].
Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. [1913 Webster]
"They saw the Hebrew leader,
Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard." [1913 Webster]
Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tempestuous, adj.
1 stormy.
2 (of a person, emotion, etc.) turbulent, violent, passionate.
1 stormy.
2 (of a person, emotion, etc.) turbulent, violent, passionate.
Derivative
tempestuously adv. tempestuousness n.
Etymology
LL tempestuosus (as TEMPEST)
THESAURUS
tempestuous
anarchic, angry, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, chaotic, clamorous, cloudy, coarse, cyclonic, dirty, disruptive, fierce, fiery, foul, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hellish, hotheaded, impassioned, impetuous, infuriate, insensate, mad, mindless, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, passionate, raging, rainy, ravening, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, rough, simmering, storming, stormy, tornadic, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, unbridled, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, volcanic, wild, wrathfulROGET THESAURUS
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Excitability
N excitability, impetuosity, vehemence, boisterousness, turbulence, impatience, intolerance, nonendurance, irritability, itching, wincing, disquiet, disquietude, restlessness, fidgets, fidgetiness, agitation, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry, fluster, flutter, pother, stew, ferment, whirl, buck fever, hurry-skurry, thrill, state of excitement, fever of excitement, transport, passion, excitement, flush, heat, fever, heat, fire, flame, fume, blood boiling, tumult, effervescence, ebullition, boiling over, whiff, gust, story, tempest, scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion, outbreak, outburst, agony, violence, fierceness, rage, fury, furor, furore, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium, phrensy, frenzy, hysterics, intoxication, tearing passion, raging passion, anger, fascination, infatuation, fanaticism, Quixotism, Quixotry, tete montee, excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state, high-strung, irritable, impatient, intolerant, feverish, febrile, hysterical, delirious, mad, moody, maggoty- headed, unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy, chafing, startlish, mettlesome, high-mettled, skittish, vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap, overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical, rabid, rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary, boisterous, impulsive, impetuous, passionate, uncontrolled, uncontrollable, ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile, excited, exciting, Int, pish!, pshaw!, noli me tangere, filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd, maggiore fretta minore atto.Wind
N wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium, air, breath, breath of air, puff, whiff, zephyr, blow, breeze, drift, aura, stream, current, jet stream, undercurrent, gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon, simoon, simoom, harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter, capful of wind, fresh breeze, stiff breeze, keen blast, blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther, windiness, ventosity, rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather, dirty sky, mare's tail, thick squall, black squall, white squall, anemography, aerodynamics, wind gauge, weathercock, vane, weather- vane, wind sock, anemometer, anemoscope, sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation, blowing, fanning, ventilation, sneezing, errhine, sternutative, sternutatory, sternutation, hiccup, hiccough, catching of the breath, Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus, air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah, branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum, whiffle ball, blowing, windy, flatulent, breezy, gusty, squally, stormy, tempestuous, blustering, boisterous, pulmonic, pulmonary, lull'd by soft zephyrs, the storm is up and all is on the hazard, the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, while mocking winds are piping loud, winged with red lightning and tempestuous rage.
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