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stormy
CIDE DICTIONARY
stormy, a.
- Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks. [1913 Webster]
- Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions. [1913 Webster]"Stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stormy, adj. (stormier, stormiest)
1 of or affected by storms.
2 (of a wind etc.) violent, raging, vehement.
3 full of feeling or outbursts; lively, boisterous (a stormy meeting).
1 of or affected by storms.
2 (of a wind etc.) violent, raging, vehement.
3 full of feeling or outbursts; lively, boisterous (a stormy meeting).
Idiom
stormy petrel = storm petrel.
Derivative
stormily adv. storminess n.
THESAURUS
stormy
Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, anarchic, angry, bad, blustering, blusterous, blustery, castellatus, chaotic, cirrose, cirrous, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, cumuliform, cumulous, cyclonic, dark, dark and gloomy, dirty, dusty, feverish, fierce, fiery, foul, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, funereal, furious, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, heavy, hellish, hotheaded, howling, ill-lighted, ill-lit, impetuous, inclement, infuriate, insensate, lenticularis, lowering, mad, mammatus, mindless, murky, nasty, nebulous, nerve-racking, nimbose, nubilous, orgasmic, orgastic, overcast, overclouded, pandemoniac, passionate, raging, rainy, ravening, raving, rip-roaring, roaring, rough, simmering, somber, sombrous, squally, storming, stratiform, stratous, tempestuous, threatening, thunderheaded, tornadic, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, uproarious, vehement, violent, volcanic, wildROGET THESAURUS
stormy
Violence
N violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity, boisterousness, effervescence, ebullition, turbulence, bluster, uproar, callithump, riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire, severity, ferocity, rage, fury, exacerbation, exasperation, malignity, fit, paroxysm, orgasm, climax, aphrodisia, force, brute force, outrage, coup de main, strain, shock, shog, spasm, convulsion, throe, hysterics, passion, outbreak, outburst, debacle, burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent, turmoil, ferment, storm, tempest, rough weather, squall, earthquake, volcano, thunderstorm, berserk, berserker, fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast, fire eater, violent, vehement, warm, acute, sharp, rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild, brusque, abrupt, waspish, impetuous, rampant, turbulent, disorderly, blustering, raging, troublous, riotous, tumultuary, tumultuous, obstreperous, uproarious, extravagant, unmitigated, ravening, inextinguishable, tameless, frenzied, desperate, infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics, fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient, savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger, excited, unquelled, unquenched, unextinguished, unrepressed, unbridled, unruly, headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, immitigable, unmitigable, uncontrollable, incontrollable, insuppressible, irrepressible, orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic, spasmodic, convulsive, explosive, detonating, volcanic, meteoric, stormy, violently, amain, by storm, by force, by main force, with might and main, tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, at one fell swoop, with a high hand, through thick and thin, in desperation, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, headlong, head foremost, furor arma ministrat, blown with restless violence round about the pende.Wind
N wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium, air, breath, breath of air, puff, whiff, zephyr, blow, breeze, drift, aura, stream, current, jet stream, undercurrent, gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon, simoon, simoom, harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter, capful of wind, fresh breeze, stiff breeze, keen blast, blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther, windiness, ventosity, rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather, dirty sky, mare's tail, thick squall, black squall, white squall, anemography, aerodynamics, wind gauge, weathercock, vane, weather- vane, wind sock, anemometer, anemoscope, sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation, blowing, fanning, ventilation, sneezing, errhine, sternutative, sternutatory, sternutation, hiccup, hiccough, catching of the breath, Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus, air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah, branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum, whiffle ball, blowing, windy, flatulent, breezy, gusty, squally, stormy, tempestuous, blustering, boisterous, pulmonic, pulmonary, lull'd by soft zephyrs, the storm is up and all is on the hazard, the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, while mocking winds are piping loud, winged with red lightning and tempestuous rage.For further exploring for "stormy" in Webster Dictionary Online