The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there, than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count.
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Tumultuous
//tjʊˈmʌl.tjʊ.əs//
Synonyms for "tumultuous" (116 found)
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Strong matches (34)
clangingclangorousclatterydisorderlydisruptiveexcitedfiercefranticfrenziedfurioushectichectoringhellishhighhystericalinfuriateinsensatemadmaffickingmindless
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Adjective(10 words)
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1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
6 entriesderived
3 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 25 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- صَاخِب adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- مُضْطَرِب adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
Armenian
1 entries- խռովահույզ adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
Bulgarian
3 entries- безреден adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- буен adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- шумен adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
Catalan
1 entries- tumultuós adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 動蕩 /动荡 adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- 沸沸揚揚 /沸沸扬扬 adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- 雜沓 /杂沓 adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Dutch
2 entries- rumoerig adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- rumoerig adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Esperanto
1 entries- tumultema adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Finnish
4 entries- kuohuva adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- melskeinen adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- meluisa adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- riehakas adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
French
3 entries- orageux adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- tumultuaire adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- tumultueux adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Galician
2 entries- tumultuoso adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- tumultuoso adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Georgian
2 entries- უწესრიგო adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- ხმაურიანი adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
German
1 entries- tumultuarisch adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Italian
4 entries- caotico adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- confuso adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- tempestoso adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- tumultuoso adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Latin
1 entries- tumultuōsus adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Norwegian
1 entries- omveltende adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Old Irish
1 entries- séissilbech adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Polish
1 entries- zgiełkliwy adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
Portuguese
1 entries- tumultuário adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Russian
3 entries- бу́йный adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- возбуждённый adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- шу́мный adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
Sanskrit
1 entries- तुमुल adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- bučan adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- bȗran adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- бу̑ран adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Spanish
4 entries- bullicioso adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- tempestuoso adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- tumultuoso adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
- tumultuoso adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Swedish
1 entries- tumultartad adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бурхли́вий adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
- галасли́вий adj (characterized by loud, confused noise)
Welsh
1 entries- cyffrous adj (causing or characterized by tumult)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
Fadil and Layla had a tumultuous love story.
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Layla and Sami had a tumultuous marriage.
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"Then straight Ulysses, 'mid tumultuous cries, / drags Calchas forth, and bids the seer unfold / the dark and doubtful meaning of the skies. / Many e'en then the schemer's crime foretold, / and, silent, saw my destiny unrolled."
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