tempestuous

Speech parts

1. tempestuous - Adjective

2. tempestuous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

stormy wild angry furious raging paroxysmal strong heavy mad flaming hotspur crabby squally powerful severe
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Antonyms

clement leeward nocturne still good clear
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Related terms

tempest tempestuate

Phrases with the word

tempestuous rage more tempestuous tempestuous wind tempestuous weather

Examples

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. Thomas Jefferson

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. Joseph Conrad

A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat, A careless shoestring, in whose tie I see a wild civility, Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part. Robert Herrick (poet)

Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone. Cesare Pavese

[Recalling George H. W. Bush's Secretary of State James Baker:]...the best secretary of state since Dean Acheson. I say that because he and Bush 41 had an incredibly tempestuous period in history, and they navigated through it with great success. John R. Bolton

Your Sensibilities are tempestuous - you feel Indignation at Weakness - Now Indignation is the handsome Brother of Anger & Hatred - His looks are "lovely in terror" - yet still remember, who are his Relations. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Close letter words and terms

tempestological tempestology tempestuate tempestuous rage tempestuous wind tempestuously