Tumultuous

/tjʊˈmʌl.tjʊ.əs/

Synonyms for "tumultuous" (100 found)

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Adjective(3 words)

agitated anarchic angry blaring blatant blatting blustering blusterous blustery boisterous brassy brawling brazen bullying chaotic clamant clamorous

Strong matches (30)

clamoursome clanging clangorous clattery disorderly excited fierce frantic frenzied furious hectic hectoring hellish hysterical infuriate insensate mad mafficking mindless noiseful

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noisy obstreperous orgasmic orgastic

Noun(3 words)

climate of political upheavalflurrying melee

Adjective(3 words)

disorderly disruptive emotional

Related words (50)

pandemoniac pell-mell rackety raging ranting raucous ravening raving riotousrip roaringrip-roaring roistering roisterous rollicking rowdy rowdyish rumbustious savage storming stormy

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strepitant strepitous swaggering swashbuckling swashing tempestuous termagant thunderous troublous turbulent unrestrained unruly uproarious violent vociferous wild

Noun(4 words)

rioting roiling upheavingviolent upheaval

Adjective(9 words)

riotous stormy tense troubled unsettled unstable uproarious volatile weltering

Verb(1 words)

weltered

Related word relations

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descriptive adjectivequalitative adjective

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chaotic stormy turbulent volatile

Collocations

6 entries

tumultuous careertumultuous crowdtumultuous debatetumultuous historytumultuous periodtumultuous weather

Inflections

2 entries

more tumultuousmost tumultuous

Derivations

2 entries

tumultuously tumultuousness

similar

1 entries

unquiet

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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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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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