TEMPESTUOUS

tempestuous. tempestuous, boisterous, or stormie

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tempestuous. Tempestuous, a. stormy, turbulent

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Tem‐pes″tu‐ous (?), a. [[L. tempestuous: cf. OF. tempestueux, F. tempêtueux.]] Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. — Tem‐pes″tu‐ous‐ly, adv. — Tem‐pes″tu‐ous‐ness, n. They saw the Hebrew leader, Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard. Longfellow.