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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stormy \Storm"y\, adjective [Compar. {Stormier}; superl. {Stormiest}.]
1. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week. ''Beyond the stormy Hebrides.'' --Milton.
2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.
3. Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.
Stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain. --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stormy
adjective
1: (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas" [ant: {calm}]
2: characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage" [also: {stormiest}, {stormier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "stormy": Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, anarchic, angry, bad, blustering, blusterous, blustery, castellatus, chaotic, cirrose, cirrous, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, cumuliform, cumulous, cyclonic, dark, dark and gloomy, dirty, dusty, feverish, fierce, fiery, foul, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, funereal, furious, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, heavy, hellish, hotheaded, howling, ill-lighted, ill-lit, impetuous, inclement, infuriate, insensate, lenticularis, lowering, mad, mammatus, mindless, murky, nasty, nebulous, nerve-racking, nimbose, nubilous, orgasmic, orgastic, overcast, overclouded, pandemoniac, passionate, raging, rainy, ravening, raving, rip-roaring, roaring, rough, simmering, somber, sombrous, squally, storming, stratiform, stratous, tempestuous, threatening, thunderheaded, tornadic, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, uproarious, vehement, violent, volcanic, wild
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