tempestuous

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The night set in gusty and tempestuous, and the moon was all girt with ragged clouds.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a tempest: tempestuous gales.
  2. adjective Tumultuous; stormy: a tempestuous relationship.

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  • The weather soon became tempestuous, and we were involved in fogs, and driven about by contrary winds. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
  • Sustained the cause of the original simple air against the variations of the Italian school Politics somewhat tempestuous, and cloudier daily. —  Life of Lord Byron, With His Letters And Journals, Vol. 5
  • The night was rainy and tempestuous, and the Dooty limited his hospitality to the draught of water. —  Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
  • A Google Street View vehicle came up against a tempestuous, unyielding mob in the British village of Broughton. —  Maximum PC all RSS Feed
  • As he pulled toward it the sea became more and more tempestuous, and he saw that what he had supposed to be a rocky cliff on an island was a wild, black sea with a raging whirlpool in the midst of it He had come so close that it was only by the utmost exertion he escaped being drawn into the whirlpool and carried down. —  A Treasury of Eskimo Tales
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stormy ·  boisterous ·  rainy ·  gusty ·  impetuous ·  ungovernable ·  chilly ·  inclement ·  humid ·  vehement ·  thunderous ·  turbid
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin tempestuōsus, from tempestūs, tempest, variant of tempestās; see tempest.

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  1. from Old French tempestueux, French tempêtueux = Provencal tempestuos, tempestos = Spanish Portuguese tempestuoso = Italian tempestoso, from Late Latin tempestuosus, stormy, turbulent, from Latin tempestas, tempest: see tempest.
 

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/tɛmˈpɛstʃjuəs/
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