Tempest
['tempɪst] or ['tɛmpɪst]
Definition
(noun.) (literary) a violent wind; 'a tempest swept over the island'.
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Definition
(n.) An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
(n.) Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
(n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
(v. t.) To disturb as by a tempest.
(v. i.) To storm.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Storm, hurricane, gale, squall, tornado, violent wind (usually accompanied with rain, hail, or snow, and sometimes with thunder and lightning).[2]. Excitement, tumult, disturbance, perturbation, violent outbreak.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Blast, storm, gale, hurricane, tornado, squall, excitement, commotion, tumult,[See BLAST]
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Definition
n. wind rushing with great velocity usually with rain or snow: a violent storm: any violent commotion.—adjs. Tem′pest-beat′en; Tem′pest-tost (Shak.) driven about by storms; Tempes′tūous resembling or pertaining to a tempest: very stormy: turbulent.—adv. Tempes′tūously.—n. Tempes′tūousness.—Tempest in a tea-pot a great disturbance over a trivial matter.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of tempests, denotes that you will have a siege of calamitous trouble, and friends will treat you with indifference. See Storms and Cyclones.
Editor: Miles
Examples
- When the mighty luminary approached within a few degrees of the tempest-tossed horizon, suddenly, a wonder! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Indeed they were at sea, and the ship and crew were in peril of tempest. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Could it be the tempest which, as she passed the landing of the first floor, blew open the drawing-room door? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Talking about 'The Tempest'—who is Andros? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- One is reminded of the lines of Tennyson: Large elements in order brought And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world fluctuation swayed In vassal tides that followed thought. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It's like 'The Tempest,' is it not? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Gudrun held the black-and-white tempest at arms' length, averting her face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At length I gathered resolution to address him, in a pause of the tempest of his passion: Your repentance, I said, is now superfluous. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- As if that rose should promise to shelter from tempest this hard gray stone! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Henrique is a regular little tempest;--his mother and I have given him up, long ago. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I feared no carriage would comethe white tempest raged so dense and wild. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- If this were set in the midst of the tempest of pictures one finds in the vast galleries of the Roman palaces, would I think it so handsome? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The ?il-de-B?uf is one tempest of whispers: We will fly to Metz; we will not fly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Like a strange snatch of heavenly music, heard in the lull of a tempest, this burst of feeling made a moment's blank pause. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A tempest in a slop-basin is absurd. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was nothing but a rock, with one creek naturally arched by the force of tempests. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The storms of the last winter were renewed; but the diminished shipping of this year caused us to feel less the tempests of the sea. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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