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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TUMULT'UOUS, a. Conducted with tumult; disorderly; as a tumultuous conflict; a tumultuous retreat.
1. Greatly agitated; irregular; noisy; confused; as a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
2. Agitated; disturbed; as a tumultuous breast.
3. Turbulent; violent; as a tumultuous speech.
4. Full of tumult and disorder; as a tumultuous state or city.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, tumultuous, turbulent]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1548 1. marked by tumult <tumultuous applause> 2. tending or disposed to cause or incite a tumult <the laws…were violated by a tumultuous faction — Edward Gibbon> 3. marked by violent or overwhelming turbulence or upheaval <tumultuous passions> • tumultuously adverb • tumultuousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 noisily vehement; uproarious; making a tumult (a tumultuous welcome). 2 disorderly. 3 agitated. Derivatives: tumultuously adv. tumultuousness n. Etymology: OF tumultuous or L tumultuosus (as TUMULT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tumultuous Tu*mul"tu*ous, a. [L. tumultuosus: cf. F. tumultueux.] 1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. --Macaulay. 2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting. 3. Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed. His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast. --Milton. 4. Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech. Syn: Disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent; violent; agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless; riotous; seditious. -- Tu*mul"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tu*mul"tu*ous*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A tumultuous event or period of time involves many exciting and confusing events or feelings. ...the tumultuous changes in Eastern Europe... It's been a tumultuous day at the international trade negotiations in Brussels. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. A tumultuous reaction to something is very noisy, because the people involved are very happy or excited. Delegates greeted the news with tumultuous applause. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Uproarious, riotous, turbulent, tumultuary, violent, lawless, seditious, wild. 2. Disturbed, agitated, restless, uneasy, unquiet. 3. Irregular, obstreperous, confused, disorderly, noisy, boisterous. 4. Full of tumult, disorderly, wild.

Moby Thesaurus

agitated, anarchic, angry, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, bullying, chaotic, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, disorderly, excited, fierce, frantic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hectoring, hellish, hysterical, infuriate, insensate, mad, mafficking, mindless, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, rackety, raging, ranting, raucous, ravening, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rowdy, rowdyish, rumbustious, savage, storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, termagant, troublous, turbulent, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, violent, vociferous, wild