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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STORMY, a.
1. Tempestuous; agitated with furious winds; boisterous; as a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as a stormy sound; stormy shocks.
3. Violent; passionate. [Unusual.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas" [ant: calm]
2: characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage" [syn: stormy, tempestuous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (stormier; -est) Date: 12th century 1. relating to, characterized by, or indicative of a storm <a stormy day> <a stormy autumn> 2. marked by turmoil or fury <a stormy life> <a stormy conference> • stormily adverb • storminess noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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). Phrases and idioms: stormy petrel = storm petrel. Derivatives: stormily adv. storminess n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stormy Storm"y, a. [Compar. Stormier; superl. Stormiest.] 1. 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. ``Beyond the stormy Hebrides.'' --Milton. 2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks. 3. Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions. Stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain. --Sir W. Scott.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stormier, stormiest) 1. If there is stormy weather, there are strong winds and heavy rain. It had been a night of stormy weather, with torrential rain and high winds. ? calm ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. Stormy seas have very large strong waves because there are strong winds. They make the treacherous journey across stormy seas. ? calm ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. If you describe a situation as stormy, you mean it involves a lot of angry argument or criticism. The letter was read at a stormy meeting... ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Tempestuous, windy, gusty, squally, boisterous, blustering. 2. Violent, passionate, rough, wild. 3. Furious, agitated, blustering.

Moby Thesaurus

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, wild