turbulent

Speech parts

1. turbulent - Adjective

2. turbulent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.

Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits.

Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting.

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Examples

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. Mikhail Lermontov

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. Washington Irving

The continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones. Max Born

Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right. Franklin D. Roosevelt

If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force. Sri Aurobindo

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. Kevin Kelly (editor)

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