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Definition: Tumultuous |
TumultuousAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tumultuous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Tumultuous \Tu*mul"tu*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression tumultuosus: compare to the French expression tumultueux.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TumultuousSynonyms: disruptive (adj), riotous (adj), troubled (adj), turbulent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
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Crosswords: Tumultuous |
| English words defined with "tumultuous": Babylonical ♦ debacle, disruptive ♦ Rabblement, Rabble-rout, Revel-rout, riotous, riotously ♦ troubled, Tumultuary, tumultuously, turbulent. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tumultuous": Damn, Dances ♦ River. (references) |
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Screenplays | For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph -- a tumultuous parade. (Patton; writing credit: Ladislas Farago; Omar N. Bradley) | |
Lyrics | Together during a very tumultuous time (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Tumultuous Elopement (1909) | |
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George Washington | The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Mobs, as we know, are like snowballs, and gather a heap of tumultuous men as they roll. |
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Business | Kim Dae-jung assumed presidency over Korea under tumultuous circumstances in February 1998, but the fact that the nation was experiencing a financial crisis made calls for economic reform not only easier to implement than had the country been in a period of stability, but also a virtual necessity. (references) | |
Economic History | Bolivia | Twelve years of tumultuous rule left the MNR divided. (references) |
Iran | The country's foreign relations since the revolution have been tumultuous. (references) | |
Zambia | In December 1990, at the end of a tumultuous year that included riots in the capital and a coup attempt, President Kaunda signed legislation ending UNIP's monopoly on power. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is lost. By the learned Dr. Dolabelly Gak it is believed to have been a term of satisfaction, implying the highest possible degree of mental tranquillity. Professor Groke, on the contrary, thinks it expressed an emotion of tumultuous delight, because it so frequently occurs in combination with the word jod or god, meaning "joy." It would be with great diffidence that I should advance an opinion conflicting with that of either of these formidable authorities. |
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| "Tumultuous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tumultuous" is used about 94 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 94 | 33,845 |
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Expressions using "tumultuous": tumultuous disturbance ♦ tumultuous fermentation. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "tumultuous": non-tumultuous. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tumultuous | 12 |
disorder tumultuous | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "tumultuous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i zhurmshëm (clamorous, knock about, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, roaring, robustious, roistering, rumbustious, tumultuary, uproarious, vocal, vociferous), i trazuar (agog, boisterous, distempered, disturbed, flurried, haywire, lumpy, mixed, on edge, rough, troubled, troublous, turbid, turbulent, vexed), i potershëm (jazz, knock about, obstreperous, rackety, rambunctious, rowdy, thundering, uproarious, vociferous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مضطرب (confused, deranged, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, ill at ease, jumbled, mixed up, muddled, restive, restless, rough, troubled, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, upset), مشاغب (disorderly, pettifogger, riotous, rowdy-dowdy, seditious, turbulent), هائج (agitated, bad tempered, berserk, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, mad, nervy, phrenic, rambunctious, rampant, rapturous, restive, restless, riotous, rough, rousing, stormy, tempestuous, turbulent, uproarious), عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, heady, impetuous, knockabout, outrageous, passionate, rabid, rigorous, robust, rough, rude, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, sharp, shrewd, smart, stiff, stout, strenuous, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, turbulent, vehement, violent, volcanic), عاصف (boisterous, dirty, gusty, inclement, rough, squally, stormy, surging, tempestuous, thunderous, torricellian, unruly, wild, winded, windy, wintry), صاخب (boisterous, discordant, furious, gusty, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, rackety, randy, rattling, raucous, riotous, rip roaring, roistering, saturnine, shrill, staring, tempestuous, termagant, uproarious, vociferous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | 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, tumultuary, turbulent, uproarious), възбуден (aflutter, aglow, agog, effervescent, excited, fevered, hectic, hot, impassioned, overwrought, tremulous, wrought up), непокорен (contumacious, disaffected, disobedient, disorderly, indocile, insubordinate, rambunctious, recalcitrant, refractory, repugnant, restive, unbowed, uncontrollable, undutiful, unfilial, unruly, unsubdued, unsubmissive, untoward, wayward), недисциплиниран (insubordinate, tumultuary, undisciplined), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), безреден (disjointed, inordinate, orderless, pell mell, raucous, riotous, rough and tumble, tumultuary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 洶 (torrential rush), 喧嚣, 嘈 (bustling, noisy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | 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, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), hřmotný (hefty, loud), bouřlivý (blustery, boisterous, choppy, effervescent, fierce, franetic, gusty, loud, rapid, roaring, squally, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, uproarious, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stormgæring (tumultuous fermentation), stormende gæring (tumultuous fermentation), hovedgæring (tumultuous fermentation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wilde gisting (tumultuous fermentation), hoofdgisting (tumultuous fermentation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pääkäyminen (tumultuous fermentation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tumultueux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stürmisch (ardent, blustering, blustery, boisterous, driving, frenzied, furious, gustily, gusty, impetuous, madcap, passionate, rapid, rapturous, rousing, squally, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, thunderously, tumultuously, turbulent, turbulently, uproarious, vehemently, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ταραχώδησ (boisterous, obstreperous, rampageous, riotous, troublous, turbulent, uproarious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פרוע (chaotic, disorderly, rampant, rank, riotous, turbulent, unruly, wild), רועש (clamorous, noisy, uproarious), סואן וסוער, פעם (excited, moved, pulsating, startled, thrilled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rendetlen (cluttered, deranged, dingy, disorderly, erratic, flipperty-flopperty, higgledy-piggledy, messy, pell mell, ragged, rooky, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, snuffy, straggly, unkempt, untidy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fermentazione tumultuosa (tumultuous fermentation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tharmaneagh (loud, noisy, rushing, rustling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umultuoustay tumultuoso (blustering, riotous, turbulent, uproarious), desordenado (deranged, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, immoderate, indigested, inordinate, lawless, pell-mell, rough and tumble, turbulent, untidy), barulhento (altisonant, blustering, bustling, clamant, clamorous, fussy, howling, judas-colored, judas-coloured, knockabout, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, randy, rattling, red, riotous, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuary, turbulent, uproarious, viatic), agitado (agitated, astir, bustling, choppy, eventful, fidgety, frantic, fretful, fussy, hectic, jumpy, restless, rough, sleepless, trembling, troubled, troublous, turbulent, unquiet, unsettled, working). (various references) tumultuos (riotous, tempestuously, tumultuously), zgomotos (bacchanal, blusterous, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, loud, noisily, noisy, obstreperous, rampageous, Randy, rattling, resoundingly, riotous, robustious, roisterer, rowdy, rumbustious, uproarious, vociferous, wanton), zbuciumat (agitated, anxious, struggling, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled), impetuos (dashing, fiercely, headlong, heady, high-spirited, hothead, hot-headed, impetuous, impetuously, raging, rash, robustious, stormy, tumultuously), clocotitor (boiling, eddying, foaming, hot, resounding, ringing, roaring, seething, tireless, whirling). (various references) шумный (hilarious, knock about, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, roaring, robustious, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, uproarious, vociferous). (various references) òrais (a tumultuous noise). (various references) uzburkan (choppy, rough, tempestuous), buran (boisterous, inclement, rackety, roaring, rugged, squally, stormy, tempestuous), bučan (boisterous, clamorous, earsplitting, loud, noisy, obstreperous, plangent, rambunctious, roistering, rumbustious, tin-pan, tumultuary, uproarious, vocal, vociferous). (various references) tumultuoso (boisterous, hurly burly, uproarious). (various references) tumultuarisk, stormande (thunderous). (various references) patırtılı (clamorous, noisy, pell mell, pellmell), kargaşalı (pell mell, pellmell, tumultuary), gürültülü (clamant, clamorous, clangorous, disorderly, hilarious, hurly burly, jazz, knockabout, loud, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, riotous, roaring, robustious, rumbustious, thundering, tumultuary, uproarious, vociferous), gürültücü (blatant, boisterous, bouncing, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rioter, ripsnorter, roisterer, rough, tumultuary, turbulent). (various references) шумний (clamant, clamorous, hilarious, loud, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, open mouthed, oral, rackety, roaring, shrill, slap bang, tumultuary, uproarious, vociferous), неспокійний (anxious, bothersome, choppy, disquiet, incommodious, nervous, obstreperous, old womanish, qualmish, restive, troubled, troublous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, vexatious, worrisome), збуджений (ablaze, agitated, animate, astir, excited, feverish, heated, hot, intoxicate, irritated, nervy, overwrought, spasmodic, tense, warm, wrought). (various references) náo động (convulsive), huyên náo xôn xao, "n o (bobbery, bounce, larrikin, noisy, rakety, riotous, rumbustious, uproarious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 22, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Mataia eneplhsqh h poliV bowntwn oi traumatiai sou ou traumatiai macairaV oude oi nekroi sou nekroi polemou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Clamoris plena urbs frequens civitas exultans interfecti tui non interfecti gladio nec mortui in bello |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ful of cry, myche vsid cite, cite ful out ioyende? thi slayne not slayn with swerd, ne `thi deade deade in batayle. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war. |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 22, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | Oh ikaw nga napuno sa mga pagsinggit, usa ka ciudad nga magubtanon, usa ka lungsod nga malipayon; ang imong mga patay wala patya pinaagi sa pinuti, ni nangamatay sila sa gubat. |
| Croatian | grade pun vreve, grade buèni, grade razigrani? Pobijeni tvoji ne padoše od maèa, nit' u boju poginuše mrtvi tvoji; |
| Danish | du larmende, støjende By, du jublende Stad? Dine slagne er vel ikke sværdslagne, døde i Krig! |
| Dutch | Gij, die vol van groot gedruis waart, gij woelige stad, gij, vrolijk huppelende stad, Uw verslagenen zijn niet verslagen met het zwaard, noch gestorven in den strijd. |
| Finnish | sinä humuavainen, pauhaava kaupunki, sinä remuava kylä? Surmattusi eivät ole miekan surmaamia, eivät sotaan kuolleita. |
| French | Ville bruyante, pleine de tumulte, Cité joyeuse! Tes morts ne périront pas par l`épée, Ils ne mourront pas en combattant. |
| German | Du warst voll Getönes, eine Stadt voll Volks, eine fröhliche Stadt. Deine Erschlagenen sind nicht mit dem Schwert erschlagen und nicht im Streit gestorben; |
| Hungarian | Te lármával teljes, zajos város, örvendezõ város, megöletteid nem fegyverrel ölettek meg, és nem harczon hullottak el! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tidak patut seluruh kota berpesta-pesta dan bersorak gembira. Sebab pejuang-pejuangmu yang mati dalam perang ini bukan mati karena bertempur. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hai negeri yang penuh dengan gempita yang ramai dan tamasya! Adapun segala orangmu yang mati itu, ia itu tiada mati dimakan pedang dan tiada mereka itu mati di dalam perang. |
| Italian | citt rumorosa e tumultuante, citt gaudente? I tuoi caduti non sono caduti di spada né sono morti in battaglia. |
| Maori | E koe, e ki tonu nei koe i te nge, he pa turituri, he pa koa: ko ou tangata i patua ehara i te mea patu na te hoari, ehara i te hunga i mate i te whawhai. |
| Norwegian | Du larmfulle, du brusende stad, du jublende by! Dine drepte er ikke drept med sverd og ikke død i krig. |
| Portuguese | e tu que estás cheia de clamor, cidade turbulenta, cidade alegre; os teus mortos não são mortos espada, nem mortos em guerra. |
| Rumanian | cetate gqlqgioasq, plinq de zarvq, cetate veselq! Moryii tqi nu vor pieri uciwi de sabie, nici nu vor muri luptknd. |
| Russian | зПТП" ЫХНОЩК, ЧПМОХАЭЙКУС, ЗПТП" МЙЛХАЭЙК! рПТБЦЕООЩЕ ФЧПЙ ОЕ НЕЮПН Х'ЙФЩ Й ОЕ Ч 'ЙФЧЕ ХНЕТМЙ; |
| Spanish | ¡Oh tú, llena de bullicio, ciudad turbulenta, urbe desenfrenada! Tus muertos no fueron muertos a espada ni muertos en guerra. |
| Swedish | Du larmuppfyllda, du bullrande stad, du glada stad! Dina slagna hava icke blivit slagna med svärd, ej dödats i strid. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tumultuous": tumultuously, tumultuousness, tumultuousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Tumultuous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: temultuous, timultuous, tummultuous, tumulteous, tumultious, tumultouous, tumultous, tumultulous, tumultuos, tumuluous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tumultuous" (pronounced tuw'mu"lkhuwus) |
| 4 | -kh uw u s | contemptuous, tempestuous, virtuous. |
| 3 | -uw u s | ambiguous, arduous, conspicuous, contiguous, continuous, deciduous, disingenuous, incongruous, ingenuous, innocuous, strenuous, vacuous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-m-o-s-t-t-u-u-u-u" | |
-2 letters: tumulous. | |
-3 letters: tumults, tumulus. | |
-4 letters: moults, tumult, utmost. | |
-5 letters: lotus, louts, molts, motts, moult, mutts, smolt, solum, stout, tolus, touts, tutus. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-m-o-s-t-t-u-u-u-u" | |
+2 letters: tumultuously. | |
+4 letters: tumultuousness. | |
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