Definition of Tempestuous

1. Adjective. Characterized by violent emotions or behavior. "A stormy marriage"

Exact synonyms: Stormy
Similar to: Unpeaceful
Derivative terms: Storm, Storminess, Tempest, Tempestuousness

2. Adjective. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger. "The raging sea"
Exact synonyms: Angry, Furious, Raging, Wild
Similar to: Stormy
Derivative terms: Angriness, Furiousness, Fury, Tempest, Tempestuousness, Wildness

Definition of Tempestuous

1. a. Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.

Definition of Tempestuous

1. Adjective. Of, or resembling a tempest; stormy, tumultuous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tempestuous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tempestuous

tempero-mandibular joint syndrome
tempers
tempest
tempest-swept
tempest-tossed
tempest-tost
tempest in a teapot
tempested
tempesting
tempestite
tempestites
tempestivities
tempestivity
tempests
tempests in teapots
tempestuous (current term)
tempestuously
tempestuousness
tempi
tempics
tempietto
tempiettos
temping
templars
template
template RNA
template method
template method pattern
template method patterns
template methods

Literary usage of Tempestuous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The action of the sea is so tempestuous here that the engineers calculated that stone blocks would have to be of about 350 cubic feet to remain in place. ..."

2. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1894)
"... (so news letter) a hideous tempestuous wind arose, the wind South West; [but* did little or no harme here], much in London—very many houses shattered, ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"For no one dreamt of the little Dutch smuggling brig storm-driven up the Firth on yon tempestuous March night—no one knew of the young pallid half-drowned ..."

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