Tempestuous
[tem'pestjʊəs] or [tɛm'pɛstʃuəs]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.
Typist: Lolita
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Stormy, windy, breezy, squally, gusty, blustering, boisterous.[2]. Violent, turbulent, tumultuous, impetuous.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Stormy, boisterous, violent, squally, turbulent
ANT:Calm, peaceful, quiet, serene, composed
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Examples
- At night, naked and scarcely pro tected from the wind and rain of this tempestuous c limate, they slept on the wet ground coiled up like animals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- My tattered dress was that in which I had crawled half alive from the tempestuous sea. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Three weeks of that vacation were hot, fair, and dry, but the fourth and fifth were tempestuous and wet. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Hardly less disturbed than the tempestuous world of waters was the assembly of human beings, that from the cliff fearfully watched its ravings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yet the blast she thought too tempestuous for her mare she herself faced on foot; that afternoon she walked nearly as far as Nunnely. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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