Found 2 items, similar to tumultuous.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: tumultuous tumultuous adj : characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; “effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive”; “riotous times”; “these troubled areas”; “the tumultuous years of his administration”; “a turbulent and unruly childhood” [syn: disruptive, riotous, troubled, turbulent]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Tumultuous Tumultuous \Tu*mul"tu*ous\, a. [L. tumultuosus: cf. F. tumultueux.] 1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. [1913 Webster] The flight became wild and tumultuous. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting. [1913 Webster] 3. Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed. [1913 Webster] His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 4. Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech. [1913 Webster] Syn: Disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent; violent; agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless; riotous; seditious. [1913 Webster] -- Tu*mul"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tu*mul"tu*ous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]