tempestuously

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tem·pes·tu·ous (t

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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.

Translations

tempestuously

adv (lit liter, fig) → heftig

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