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tempestuous

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tem·pes·tu·ous  (tm-psch-s)
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
Adjective
1. violent or stormy
2. extremely emotional or passionate: a tempestuous relationship
tempestuously adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.tempestuous - characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage"
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"
stormy - (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas"

tempestuous
Translations

tempestuous [tɛmˈpɛstjuəs] adj [relationship, meeting] → tempestuoso
tempestuous [tɛmˈpɛstjuəs] adj (fig) → orageux/euse: [person] → passionné(e)
tempestuous [tɛmˈpɛstjuəs] tempest adj (also fig) → stürmisch; [person] → leidenschaftlich
tempestuous [tɛmˈpɛstjuəs] adj [relationship, meeting] → burrascoso/a


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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.
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.
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.
 
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