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stormy

Whether it’s your temper or the month of May, something characterized by turmoil and unpredictable outbursts can be called stormy.

The word stormy describes weather conditions like thunder, lightening, dark clouds, wind, and pelting rain. The word also can be applied more broadly to describe things that seem as volatile and unpredictable as the weather, like a stormy debate that can get loud and angry, or a stormy relationship that is characterized by frequent outbursts of emotion, like downpour of feelings.

DEFINITIONS OF: stormy

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adj (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion

“a stormy day”
“wide and stormy seas”
Synonyms
angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger
billowing, billowy, surging
characterized by great swelling waves or surges
blustering, blusterous, blustery
blowing in violent and abrupt bursts
boisterous, fierce, rough
violently agitated and turbulent
blowy, breezy, windy
abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
choppy
rough with small waves
dirty
unpleasantly stormy
gusty, puffy
blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts
squally
characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain
thundery
accompanied with thunder
inclement
(of weather or climate) severe
unpeaceful
not peaceful
Antonyms:
calm
(of weather) free from storm or wind
placid, quiet, smooth, still, tranquil, unruffled
(of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
settled
not changeable
windless
without or almost without wind
peaceable, peaceful
not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war
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adj characterized by violent emotions or behavior

“a stormy argument”
“a stormy marriage”
Synonyms:
tempestuous
unpeaceful
not peaceful
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