tumultuous as an adjective: - 1
tumultuous
adjective
1 tumultuous
Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination:
— The tumultuous years of his administration.
synonyms: disruptive, riotous, troubled, turbulent.
Roget 173:
violent,
vehement;
warm;
acute,
sharp;
rough,
rude,
ungentle,
bluff,
boisterous,
wild;
brusque,
abrupt,
waspish;
impetuous;
rampant.
turbulent;
disorderly;
blustering,
raging
etc.
v.;
troublous†,
riotous;
tumultuary†,
tumultuous;
obstreperous,
uproarious;
extravagant;
unmitigated;
ravening,
inextinguishable,
tameless;
frenzied
etc.
(insane)
503.
desperate
etc.
(rash)
863;
infuriate,
furious,
outrageous,
frantic,
hysteric,
in hysterics.
fiery,
flaming,
scorching,
hot,
red-hot,
ebullient.
savage,
fierce,
ferocious,
fierce as a tiger.
excited
etc.
v.;
unquelled†,
unquenched,
unextinguished†,
unrepressed,
unbridled,
unruly;
headstrong,
ungovernable,
unappeasable,
immitigable,
unmitigable†;
uncontrollable,
incontrollable†;
insuppressible,
irrepressible;
orgastic,
orgasmatic,
orgasmic.
spasmodic,
convulsive,
explosive;
detonating
etc.
v.;
volcanic,
meteoric;
stormy
etc.
(wind)
349.
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Moby thesaurus: agitated, anarchic, angry, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, bullying, chaotic, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, disorderly, excited, fierce, frantic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hectoring, hellish, hysterical, infuriate, insensate, mad, mafficking, mindless, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, rackety, raging, ranting, raucous, ravening, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rowdy, rowdyish, rumbustious, savage, storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, termagant, troublous, turbulent, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, violent, vociferous, wild ... show more.
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