Stormy

Definition: Stormy

Stormy

Adjective

1. (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas".

2. Characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stormy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Stormy \Storm"y\, adjective. [Comparative Stormier; superlative Stormiest.]. (references)

Synonym: Stormy

Violence

Spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating; Verb: volcanic, meteoric; stormy; (wind).

Warning

Handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.

Wind

Adjective: blowing. Verb: windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy, tempestuous, blustering; boisterous. (violent).

Crosswords: Stormy

So in stormy weather, they both clang together, and sparks flew out of his ass. (Leprechaun 3; writing credit: David DuBos; Mark Jones)

Stormy Two is gonna' go back in time, and, uh, fix it all up, there (Sealab 2021; writing credit: John J. Miller; Adam Reed)

The relationship between the 54 year old disciplinarian and the free spirited teen was inevitably stormy. (Anne Frank Remembered; writing credit: Jon Blair; Anne Frank)

Is it stormy where you are (Kiss the Rain; performing artist: Billie Myers)

It's a stormy sea of love and emotion, (You're An Ocean; performing artist: Fastball; writing credit: Tony Scalzo)

Sail across a stormy sea (Feels Like The First Time; performing artist: Foreigner)

When the night is dark and stormy (I Will Come To You; performing artist: Hanson)

So many stormy nights, so many wrongs or rights (WHO'S CRYIN NOW; performing artist: Journey)

Stormy Crossing (1957)

The Thoroughbred Stormy (1954)

Stormy Weather (1943)

One Stormy Knight (1922)

Through Stormy Waters (1920)

Stormy (performing artist: The Classics IV)

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

Books

• It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Best (?) from the Bulwer-Lytton Contest (reference)

• Stormy (reference)

• Stormy Night (reference)

• Stormy Springtime (Harlequin Romance, No 2855) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Stormy Weather (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Stormy Blues (reference)

• Stormy Weather: The Legendary Lena (1941-1958) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Stormy seas on the east coast Pier has been broken in half. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The STORMY ELIZABETH and BARBARA ANN are offshore lobster boats. Credit: Fisheries.

The lobster boat STORMY ELIZABETH heading out of port. Credit: Fisheries.

In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Stormy weather on the METEOR. Plate 39. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Listing heavily to port in stormy seas in the northeastern Atlantic, seen from USNS General A.W. Greely (T-AP-141), circa 29 December 1951. At right is a lifeboat, returning to the General A.W. Greely with survivors of the Flying Enterprise. A merchant tanker is standing by off the listing ship's bow. Credit: NAVY.

Water flows aft over the bow as the cruiser makes a stormy passage from Manila to Hong Kong, 6 March 1929. View was taken from the foremast, with the ship's forward twin 6"/53 gun turret in the foreground. Credit: NAVY.

Red Cross nurse seeing vision of wounded soldiers across stormy sea. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Bowman saw the stormy light come into Dave's eyes again. Credit: Library of Congress.

First chapter opening of Methodus inveniendi ...; with headpiece of sphinxes, cherubs, and open book with crossed trumpets, and decorated initial M showing stormy sea. Credit: Library of Congress.

A stormy day at Katwyck, Holland. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

At the end of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though this stormy rumbling began to recede

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "stormy": get stormy ♦ stormy petrel ♦ stormy sea ♦ stormy sunset ♦ stormy temper. Additional references.

Ending with "stormy": black-stormy.

Albanian

i stuhishëm (blusterous, blustery, brash, dirty, gusty, tempestuous, thunderous, thundery, turbulent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متلاطم الأمواج, ‏هائج (agitated, bad tempered, berserk, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, mad, nervy, phrenic, rambunctious, rampant, rapturous, restive, restless, riotous, rough, rousing, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), ‏عاصف (boisterous, dirty, gusty, inclement, rough, squally, surging, tempestuous, thunderous, torricellian, tumultuous, unruly, wild, winded, windy, wintry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

бурен (angry, blusterous, blustery, boiling, darnel, dirty, fierce, heavy, roaring, rogue, rough, rugged, tearaway, tempestuous, thunderous, turbulent, vehement, violent, weed, wild), предвещаващ буря. (various references)

Chinese 

风雨如磐. (various references)

Czech

vznìtlivý (combustible, excitable, fiery, hot tempered, inflammable, nervy, quick tempered), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), bouřlivý (blustery, boisterous, choppy, effervescent, fierce, franetic, gusty, loud, rapid, roaring, squally, tempestuous, thunderous, tumultuous, uproarious, wild). (various references)

Danish

stormfuld vind (stormy wind), tordensky (cumulonimbus, stormy cloud). (various references)

Dutch

stormachtige wind (fresh gale, gale, stormy wind), onweerswolk (stormy cloud). (various references)

Farsi 

پراشوب (Pellmell), کولاک دار, توفانی (Boisterous, Gusty). (various references)

Finnish

myrskyisä (tempestuous, thundering), myrskyinen (tempestuous, thundering), myrskyävä (storm-tossed, turbulent). (various references)

French

tumultueux, tempétueux, orageux, houleux, démonté. (various references)

German

stürmisch (ardent, blustering, blustery, boisterous, driving, frenzied, furious, gustily, gusty, impetuous, madcap, passionate, rapid, rapturous, rousing, squally, tempestuous, thunderous, thunderously, tumultuous, tumultuously, turbulent, turbulently, uproarious, vehemently, wild). (various references)

Greek 

πολυτάραχοσ (chequered), τρικυμιώδησ (rough), θυελλώδησ (squally, tempestuous, thunderous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתפרץ (eruptive), גועש (storming), געוש (raging), רוגש (rough), נסער (agitated, excited, turbulent). (various references)

Hungarian

viharos (blowy, boisterous, flawy, frantic, gusty, hickory, rough, rugged, squally, tempestuous, thunderous, thundery). (various references)

Italian

turbolento (boisterous, noisy, rowdy, turbulent), temporalesco, tempestoso (blustering, blusterous, rugged, tempestuous, wild). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

険悪 (dangerous, gloomy, perilous, serious, threatening), 荒れ模様 (threatening), 波瀾万丈 (troubles, uproarious, ups and downs). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あれもよう (threatening), けんあく (dangerous, gloomy, perilous, serious, threatening), はらんばんじょう (troubles, uproarious, ups and downs). (various references)

Korean 

폭풍우 (STORM, Stormier, Stormiest, tempest, tempests). (various references)

Manx

sterrymagh (inclement, tempestuous), rastal, rastagh (blustery, boisterous, gusty, rough, squally, windy), kiaullaneagh (bell-like, blatant, clamorous, hectoring, loud, loud-mouthed, orchestral, randy, robustious, roistering, squealing, strident; roisterer, vociferous), dorrinagh (tempestuous). (various references)

Pig Latin

ormystay.(various references)

Portuguese

violento (blustering, boisterous, desperate, drastic, elbow-grease, fierce, forceful, forcible, furious, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, impetuous, joggly, judas-colored, judas-coloured, rabid, racking, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, red, rough, rude, ruffianly, sledge-hammer, smart, smashing, spasmodic, splitting, swashing, swingeing, tearing, tempestuous, thunderous, tough, towering, two-fisted, uncontrollable, vehement, viatic, violent, virulent), turbulento (bacchic, disorderly, fractious, higgledy-piggledy, inordinate, knockabout, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rampageous, randy, riotous, rowdy, rumbustious, tempestuous, termagant, turbulent, unquiet), tormentoso (gusty, tempestuous), tempestuoso (blowy, blustering, boisterous, gusty, severe, squally, tempestuous, thundery), arrebatado (desperate, furious, harum-scarum, heady, impetuous, passionate, rapt, rapturous, rash, rumbustious, towering, warm), apaixonado (doting, enthusiastic, fond, heartwarming, hot-blooded, impassioned, in love, inamorato, infatuated, lover, lovesick, nutty, passionate, spoony, swain, tropic, tropical, vehement, warm, warm-blooded). (various references)

Romanian

vijelios (rough, tempestuous), viforos, viforatic, tulburat (anxious, confused, crazy, dim, distempered, distracted, excited, keyed, ruffled, turbid, uneasy, worried), prevestitor de furtunã (lurid, storm cloud), nãvalnic (dashing, heady, impetuous, impetuously, rash, unbridled), impetuos (dashing, fiercely, headlong, heady, high-spirited, hothead, hot-headed, impetuous, impetuously, raging, rash, robustious, tumultuous, tumultuously), furtunos (agitated, boisterous, disorderly, gusty, rough, rugged, tempestuous). (various references)

Russian 

грозовой (thunderous, thundery), бурный (blusterous, blustery, boisterous, frenetic, gusty, heavy, hectic, rambunctious, rude, rugged, squally, tempestuous, turbulent, vulcanic). (various references)

Scottish

gailbheach, doimheal, dìsleach, anasta, ainbhtheach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

olujni (squally), olujan (rough), buran (boisterous, inclement, rackety, roaring, rugged, squally, tempestuous, tumultuous). (various references)

Spanish

tormentoso (wild), tempestuoso (blustery, boisterous, gustily, gusty, high, impetuous, tempestuous, wild), borrascoso (blustery, gusty, squally). (various references)

Swedish

stormig (blustering, blusterous, boisterous, gusty, tempestuous, turbulent, wild). (various references)

Turkish

heyecanlı (agitated, aglow, agog, astir, crazed, declamatory, dramatic, emotional, excitable, excited, exciting, febrile, feverish, glowing, gone, gripping, happy, heated, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a lather, inspired, nail biting, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, spirited, thrilling, tiptoe, vibrant, warm, wrought up, zealous), fırtınalı (angry, boisterous, dirty, gusty, heavy, inclement, intemperate, nasty, rough, rugged, squally, tempestuous, turbulent, ugly, wild), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent). (various references)

Ukrainian

штормовий (troubled, wild), шалений (amok, amuck, boisterous, dithyrambic, ecstatic, fierce, frantic, frenzied, lunatic, mad, outrageous, pelting, unruly, vehement, wild), бурхливий (blusterous, gusty, headlong, raging, tempestuous, turbulent, volcanic, wanton, wild, windy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sôi nổi sóng gió báo bão, mãnh liệt như bão tố ào ạt. (various references)

Welsh

ystormus, tymhestlog (tempestuous), drycinog. (various references)

hiemabo, hiemalem, hiemali, hiemandum, hiemare, hiemaverat, hiemem, tempestuosus, turbidam, turbido, turbulentus. (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"Stormy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Esturmy, Ostomy, Schorm, somy, Storma, stormr, strom, stromy, sturgy, sturm, Sturmey, turmy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: morts, ryots, storm, story, stroy, troys, tyros.

-2 letters: mors, mort, most, mots, orts, roms, rosy, rots, ryot, sort, toms, tors, tory, toys, troy, tyro.

-3 letters: mor, mos, mot, oms, ors, ort, rom, rot, som, sot, soy, sty, tom, tor, toy, try, yom.

-4 letters: mo, my, om, or, os, oy, so, to, yo.

+1 letter: trisomy.

+2 letters: costmary, isometry, midstory, morosity, ramosity, rimosity, smothery, stormily, stramony.

+3 letters: astronomy, costumery, customary, dosimetry, monastery, motorways, osmometry, oysterman, oystermen, styliform, tommyrots.

+4 letters: ambrotypes, astrometry, biorhythms, cryptogams, cryptonyms, dynamotors, gastronomy, heteronyms, hypsometer, macrocytes, martyrdoms, microcytes, moneyworts, multistory, mysterious, osmolarity, pyrometers, rhytidomes, sociometry, spirometry, timorously, tiresomely, viscometry.

+5 letters: astrocytoma, cryptograms, customarily, cyclometers, cytochromes, enterostomy, gastrectomy, heartsomely, hydrometers, hygrometers, hypsometers, hypsometric, hysterotomy, macrophytes, masticatory, matronymics, mayoralties, methylators, misanthropy, monocrystal, monstrosity, monstrously, motorcycles, myocarditis, mythologers, patronymics, plyometrics, polyrhythms, postprimary, promiscuity, proselytism, protoxylems, psychometry, psychomotor, pycnometers, pyrometries, seismometry, sportsmanly, stimulatory, tensiometry, terpolymers, tremulously, tropomyosin, trypanosome, uncustomary, xerophytism.