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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 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 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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