tumultuous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: tu=mul=tu=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

tumultuous, a. [L. tumultuosus: cf. F. tumultueux.].

•  Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.  [1913 Webster]

  "The flight became wild and tumultuous."  [1913 Webster]
•  Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.  [1913 Webster]
•  Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.  [1913 Webster]

  "His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth
  Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast."  [1913 Webster]
•  Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent; violent; agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless; riotous; seditious.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tumultuous, adj.
1 noisily vehement; uproarious; making a tumult (a tumultuous welcome).
2 disorderly.
3 agitated.

Derivative

tumultuously adv. tumultuousness n.

Etymology

OF tumultuous or L tumultuosus (as TUMULT)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

tumultuous

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.