tempestuous

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adj.

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a tempest: tempestuous gales.

2. Tumultuous; stormy: a tempestuous relationship.

[Middle English, from Late Latin tempestusus, from tempests, tempest, variant of tempests; see tempest.]

tem·pestu·ous·ly adv.

tem·pestu·ous·ness n.

tempestuous [tɛmˈpɛstjʊəs]

adj

1. of or relating to a tempest

2. violent or stormy a tempestuous love affair

tempestuously adv

tempestuousness n

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Adj.	1.	tempestuous - characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage" stormy unpeaceful - not peaceful; "unpeaceful times"; "an unpeaceful marriage"
	2.	tempestuous - (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" angry, furious, raging, wild stormy - (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas"

tempestuous

adjective

1. passionate, intense, turbulent, heated, wild, excited, emotional, violent, flaming, hysterical, stormy, impassioned, uncontrolled, boisterous, feverish the couple's tempestuous relationship
passionate serene, quiet, calm, peaceful, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled

2. stormy, turbulent, inclement, raging, windy, boisterous, blustery, gusty, squally adverse winds and tempestuous weather

Translations

tempestuous [temˈpestjʊəs] ADJ [relationship, meeting] → tempestuoso

tempestuous [tɛmˈpɛstʃuəs] adj [relationship] → orageux/euse, tumultueux/euse; [marriage] → tumultueux/euse; [person] → turbulent(e)

tempestuous

adj

(lit liter) winds → stürmisch; sea → tobend, stürmisch

(fig) → stürmisch; argument, rage → heftig; speech → leidenschaftlich

tempestuous [tɛmˈpɛstjʊəs] adj (relationship, meeting) → burrascoso/a

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Blore
blustery
boisterous
choppy
furioso
furious
gusty
heated
inclement
intemperate
Nimbose
obstreperous
passionate
Placid
raging
Rimbaud
ruggedly
squally
stormy

It stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than ever it did about poor Paul's tossed craft.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

I could imagine no worse eternal punishment for evil seamen who die unrepentant upon the earthly sea than that their souls should be condemned to man the ghosts of disabled ships, drifting for ever across a ghostly and tempestuous ocean.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

Month after month for the six years in which the "Editor's Study" continued in the keeping of its first occupant, its lesson was more or less stormily delivered, to the exclusion, for the greater part, of other prophecy, but it has not been found well to keep the tempestuous manner along with the fulminant matter in this volume.

My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context

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