 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tempestuous
adjective: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds
on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea"
[syn: {angry}, {furious}, {raging}, {wild}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tempestuous \Tem*pes"tu*ous\, adjective [L. tempestuous: cf. OF.
tempestueux, F. temp[^e]tueux.]
Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a
tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather;
a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. --
{Tem*pes"tu*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Tem*pes"tu*ous*ness}, noun
They saw the Hebrew leader,
Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard.
--Longfellow.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "tempestuous":
anarchic, angry, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous,
chaotic, clamorous, cloudy, coarse, cyclonic, dirty, disruptive,
fierce, fiery, foul, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hellish,
hotheaded, impassioned, impetuous, infuriate, insensate, mad,
mindless, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, passionate, raging,
rainy, ravening, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, rough, simmering,
storming, stormy, tornadic, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent,
typhonic, typhoonish, unbridled, uncontrollable, uncontrolled,
unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, volcanic, wild,
wrathful
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