Synonyms for Turbulence

Synonyms for "turbulence" (218 found)

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Closest matches (44)

Noun(4 words)

ado aerospace aerosphere agitation airair flowair holeair pocketair spaceairspace asperity babel bluster bobbery boil boiling brawl broil brouhaha bump

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bumpiness burble bustle cacophony cat ceiling chaos choppiness churn commotion confusion conturbation cragginess crosswind derangement din disarrangement disarray disarticulation discomfiture

Strong matches (65)

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empty spaceentropy excitement fanaticismfavorable windfeery-fary ferment fermentation fever feverishness fidgets fight flap flow flurry fluster flutteration fog foment fomentation foofaraw fracas frenzy front fume furor furore fury fuss gale granulation haphazardness harshnesshead windhigh-pressure areahispidity hole hubbubhurly burlyhurly-burly hurryhurry scurryhurry-scurry

Noun(2 words)

disorder disturbance

Related words (109)

incoherence indiscriminateness inequalityinharmonious harmonyinquietude ionosphere irregularity jaggedness jetstream jitters joltiness jumpiness latherlow-pressure areamaelstrom malaise moilmost admired disordermotion nerviness

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Noun(10 words)

instability rapids riot roilingsocial upheavalsturm und drangturbulency unrest unsteadiness welter

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

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More general

10 entries

bad weatherdisorderflow patternfluid motioninclemency inclementnessnatural phenomenonphysical phenomenonsituation state

More specific

8 entries

air turbulenceeconomic turbulenceeddymarket turbulencepolitical turbulenceswirl vortexwater turbulence

Collocations

5 entries

air turbulenceeconomic turbulencemarket turbulencepolitical turbulencesea turbulence

Inflections

1 entries

turbulences

Derivations

3 entries

turbulences turbulent turbulently

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

As the plane was approaching turbulence, the pilot asked the passengers aboard the plane to fasten their seat belts.

Source: tatoeba (1944)

We are currently experiencing some turbulence.

Source: tatoeba (40854)

A bird flying out of the water is careful not to cause turbulence.

Source: tatoeba (270943)

We had a rough flight because of turbulence.

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