Tempestuous

a.

1.

Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. They saw the Hebrew leader, Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard. - Longfellow.

Adj.

1.

tempestuous - (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" Synonyms: angry, furious, raging, wild

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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