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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TEMPEST'UOUS, a.
1. Very story; turbulent; rough with wind; as tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night.
2. Blowing with violence; as a tempestuous wind.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage" [syn: stormy, tempestuous]
2: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous, wild]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin tempestuosus, from Old Latin tempestus season, weather, storm, from tempus Date: 15th century of, relating to, or resembling a tempest ; turbulent, stormy <tempestuous weather> <a tempestuous relationship> • tempestuously adverb • tempestuousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 stormy. 2 (of a person, emotion, etc.) turbulent, violent, passionate. Derivatives: tempestuously adv. tempestuousness n. Etymology: LL tempestuosus (as TEMPEST)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tempestuous Tem*pes"tu*ous, a. [L. tempestuous: cf. OF. tempestueux, F. temp[^e]tueux.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a relationship or a situation as tempestuous, you mean that very strong and intense emotions, especially anger, are involved. For years, the couple's tempestuous relationship made the headlines... = stormy ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Stormy, windy, breezy, squally, gusty, blustering, boisterous. 2. Violent, turbulent, tumultuous, impetuous, stormy.

Moby Thesaurus

anarchic, angry, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, chaotic, clamorous, cloudy, coarse, cyclonic, dirty, disruptive, fierce, fiery, foul, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hellish, hotheaded, impassioned, impetuous, infuriate, insensate, mad, mindless, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, passionate, raging, rainy, ravening, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, rough, simmering, storming, stormy, tornadic, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, unbridled, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, volcanic, wild, wrathful