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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tumultuous \Tu*mul"tu*ous\, adjective [L. tumultuosus: cf. F. tumultueux.]
1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.
The flight became wild and tumultuous. --Macaulay.
2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
3. Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.
His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast. --Milton.
4. Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.
Syn: Disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent; violent; agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless; riotous; seditious. -- {Tu*mul"tu*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Tu*mul"tu*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tumultuous
adjective: characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood" [syn: {disruptive}, {riotous}, {troubled}, {turbulent}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "tumultuous": 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
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