Stormy
['stɔːmɪ] or ['stɔrmi]
Definition
(adj.) (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; 'a stormy day'; 'wide and stormy seas' .
(adj.) characterized by violent emotions or behavior; 'a stormy argument'; 'a stormy marriage' .
Edited by Clio--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
(superl.) Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.
(superl.) Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Tempestuous, windy, gusty, squally, boisterous, blustering.[2]. Violent, passionate, rough.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Examples
- I have reason to remember this, and think of it with awe; for before I looked upon those two again, a stormy sea had risen to their feet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The night was cold and stormy. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It was a country predestined, therefore, to a stormy history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He returned to France after Sedan, and flung himself into the stormy politics of the defeated nation with great fire and vigour. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the Paris newspapers came around and wanted pay for notices of it, which we promptly refused; whereupon there was rather a stormy time for a while, but nothing was published about it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I've been a sheep-farmer, stock-breeder, other trades besides, away in the new world, said he; many a thousand mile of stormy water off from this. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She's the “Stormy Petrel” now. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Nevertheless, I so loved that unworthy girl that my life was made stormy by my fondness for her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was a stormy, windy night, such as raises whole squadrons of nondescript noises in rickety old houses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Her tone seemed to sober him, as it had so often done in his stormiest moments. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And the last night of the seven was the stormiest of all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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