Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Subject to, characterized by, or affected by storms; tempestuous.
- adj. Characterized by violent emotions, passions, speech, or actions: a stormy argument.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Characterized by storm or tempest, or by high winds; tempestuous; boisterous: as, a stormy season.
- Characterized by violent disturbances or contentions; agitated; turbulent.
- Violent; passionate; easily roused to anger or strife.
- Associated with storms, as seen in them or supposed to presage them: specifically, in ornithology, noting certain petrels.
- Synonyms Windy, gusty, squally, blustering. See wind.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to storms.
- adj. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain.
- adj. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury.
- adj. Violent; passionate; rough.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous.
- adj. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury
- adj. Violent; passionate; rough.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion
- adj. characterized by violent emotions or behavior
Etymologies
- From Middle English stormi, from Old English stormiġ ("stormy"), equivalent to storm + -y. Cognate with Dutch stormig ("stormy"), German stürmig ("stormy"), Swedish stormig ("stormy"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's what I call a stormy romance, that all of the sudden the umbrella broke and everybody got rained on," Herm Edwards said on the same network.”
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“Pilotshark Sponsored by Boeing says: pezmiztix says: STORM says: jmunny says: and Kenneth; here the help you need, and your group still needs a leader, right now stormy is in the lead as he did come out of the closet.”
“There were mussels and abalones and clams and rock-oysters, and great ocean-crabs that were thrown upon the beaches in stormy weather.”
“I talked about the difficulty of sleeping in stormy weather, stated the restlessness and semi-insomnia that the violent motion of the ship caused in me, and raised the query of how bad weather affected the officers.”
“It is widely known at Whataburger which my favorite bird is the eagle since in stormy times, when all alternative birds find refuge, the eagle soars, pronounced Tom Dobson, Whataburger Restaurants, LP Chairman as well as CEO.”
“Those hands-free cellphone laws are most helpful in stormy weather.”
“That they live on a coral-fringed island in stormy waters has protected them until now from those do-gooders who would "bring them into the mainstream of Indian society," as the nationalist phrase has it.”
“His expression stormy, Stippling drew his blade and waved it in a whistling circle above his head.”
“Many of their discussions ended in stormy words, but never before had Martin's dark face showed such white-hot, quivering rage as when he arose now, gathered up his papers, and went away to his own room, closing the door smartly behind him.”
“And he as much as told you, did he?" she whispered, turning around to glare in stormy wrath at the unoffending telephone – "he as much as told you there was nothing in it?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stormy’.
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Romanticism
Words to describe art of the Romantic Era
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no little thing
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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The Jumblies
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
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RoughOctober's list
nature, steampunk, weather, colors, and other assorted (sometimes moody) words
beetle, barn, beacon, water, engine, typhoon, doldrums, leaves, mica, steam, bowgrace, leaf and 121 more...
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set the mood
breeze, moonblink, daybreak, skyline, cloud, silver lining, sunsetting, fog, windfall, early, mist, morning and 7 more...
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monday
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Eyes~
sparkling, mischevious, glinting, deep, alluring, warm, frigid, verdant, lackadaisical, glistening, animated, intense and 15 more...
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Time Trilogy
Words from Madeleine L'Engle's classics, A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
tesseract, kythe, cherubim, seraphim, kairos, tachyon, unicorn, it, empathy, whatsit, who, which and 30 more...
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Pets
shadow, shade, hissyfit, spooky, tuffy, snowball, beegee, lucky, stormy, jewel, simba, jack and 16 more...
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by night he scorches, as he burns by ...
sweltering, blistering, sultry, stormy, wandering, roving, devil-may-care
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