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Definition: Tumultuously |
TumultuouslyAdverb1. In a tumultuous and riotous manner; "the crowd was demonstrating tumultuously". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tumultuously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonym: TumultuouslySynonym: riotously (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tumultuously |
| Specialty definitions using "tumultuously": PELL-MELL. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | At moments, Marius covered his face with his hands, and the vague past tumultuously traversed the twilight which filled his brain. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Tumultuously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tumultuously" is used about 2 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tumultuously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 喧嚣地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stürmisch (ardent, blustering, blustery, boisterous, driving, frenzied, furious, gustily, gusty, impetuous, madcap, passionate, rapid, rapturous, rousing, squally, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, thunderously, tumultuous, turbulent, turbulently, uproarious, vehemently, wild), lärmende (rantingly, roisters, vociferously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zajosan (blatantly, noisily), viharosan (boisterously), rendetlenül (higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger), lármásan (boisterously), izgatottan (agitatedly, astir, heatedly, hectically, jumpily, on tiptoe, tippytoe, tiptoe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umultuouslytay tumultuosamente. (various references) tumultuos (riotous, tempestuously, tumultuous), impetuos (dashing, fiercely, headlong, heady, high-spirited, hothead, hot-headed, impetuous, impetuously, raging, rash, robustious, stormy, tumultuous). (various references) возбужденно (agitatedly, heatedly). (various references) tumultuosamente (boisterously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-l-m-o-s-t-t-u-u-u-u-y" | |
-2 letters: tumultuous. | |
-4 letters: tumulous. | |
-5 letters: stoutly, toluyls, tumults, tumulus. | |
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