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TUMULTUARY

Definition: TUMULTUARY

TUMULTUARY

Adjective

1. Restless; agitated; unquiet.

2. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TUMULTUARY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Tumultuary \Tu*mul"tu*a*ry\, adjective. [Latin expression tumultuarius: compare to the French expression tumultuaire.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: TUMULTUARY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Excitability

Rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary, boisterous.

Violence

Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: TUMULTUARY

English words defined with "TUMULTUARY": Tumultuarily, Tumultuariness. (references)

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Modern Translation: TUMULTUARY

Language Translations for "TUMULTUARY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i zhurmshëm (clamorous, knock about, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, roaring, robustious, roistering, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious, vocal, vociferous), i çrregullt (anomalous, disorderly, erratic, fitful, formless, irregular, messy, unkempt, untidy). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разбъркан (deranged, farraginous, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled, mixing up, out of order, pell mell, perturbed, promiscuous, turbid, untidy), шумен (barbaric, bustling, clamorous, knockabout, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, rambunctious, raucous, resounding, roaring, robustious, roistering, rollicking, rough and tumble, rowdy, rumbustious, slam-bang, slaphappy, smacking, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), недисциплиниран (insubordinate, tumultuous, undisciplined), набързо сформиран, безреден (disjointed, inordinate, orderless, pell mell, raucous, riotous, rough and tumble, tumultuous), безразборен (indiscriminate, promiscuous, sweeping, undiscriminated). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zavargó (disturber, riotous, tumultuous). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umultuarytay

   

Portuguese

  

tumultuário, barulhento (altisonant, blustering, bustling, clamant, clamorous, fussy, howling, judas-colored, judas-coloured, knockabout, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, randy, rattling, red, riotous, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, viatic). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

недисциплинированный (disorderly, insubordinate, rebellious, undisciplined), беспорядочный (chaotic, disorderly, erratic, haywire, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, indiscriminate, inordinate, messy, pell mell, rambling, random, rough and tumble, shambolic, topsy turvy, tumultuous, undigested, unregulated, upside down). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uskomešan (turbulent), plahovit (effusive, fiery, heady, hotspur, impetuous, ugly), bučan (boisterous, clamorous, earsplitting, loud, noisy, obstreperous, plangent, rambunctious, roistering, rumbustious, tin-pan, tumultuous, uproarious, vocal, vociferous). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tumultuario. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kargaşalı (pell mell, pellmell, tumultuous), gürültülü (clamant, clamorous, clangorous, disorderly, hilarious, hurly burly, jazz, knockabout, loud, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, riotous, roaring, robustious, rumbustious, thundering, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), gürültücü (blatant, boisterous, bouncing, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rioter, ripsnorter, roisterer, rough, tumultuous, turbulent). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

шумний (clamant, clamorous, hilarious, loud, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, open mouthed, oral, rackety, roaring, shrill, slap bang, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), безладний (amorphous, disorderly, dropping, excursive, harum scarum, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, hurly burly, ill disposed, indiscriminate, inordinate, meandering, messy, orderless, outward, pell mell, pellmell, promiscuous, rambling, scrappy, shapeless, topsy turvy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "TUMULTUARY"

Words rhyming with "TUMULTUARY" (pronounced 'Tu*mul"tu*a*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

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Anagrams: TUMULTUARY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-l-m-r-t-t-u-u-u-y"

-3 letters: mutular, tumular.

-4 letters: mutual, rattly, tartly, tautly, tumult, umlaut.

-5 letters: aurum, larum, lyart, lytta, malty, marly, mural, ratty, rutty, tarty, truly, tryma, ultra, yurta.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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