Tumultuous \Tu*mul"tu*ous\ (t[-u]*m[u^]l"t[-u]*[u^]s), a. [L.
tumultuosus: cf. F. tumultueux.]
1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly;
turbulent.
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The flight became wild and tumultuous. --Macaulay.
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2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous;
disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
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3. Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.
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His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth
Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast.
--Milton.
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4. Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.
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Syn: Disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent;
violent; agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless;
riotous; seditious.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tumultuous
adj : 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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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