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Irregular inflected forms: stormier , stormiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion
Example:
wide and stormy seas
Classified under:
Similar:
angry; furious; raging; tempestuous; wild ((of the elements) as if showing violent anger)
billowing; billowy; surging (characterized by great swelling waves or surges)
blustering; blusterous; blustery (blowing in violent and abrupt bursts)
boisterous; fierce; rough (violently agitated and turbulent)
blowy; breezy; windy (abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes)
choppy (rough with small waves)
dirty (unpleasantly stormy)
gusty; puffy (blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts)
squally (characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain)
thundery (accompanied with thunder)
Also:
inclement ((of weather or climate) severe)
unpeaceful (not peaceful)
Antonym:
calm ((of weather) free from storm or wind)
Derivation:
storm (a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning)
storminess (the state of being stormy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by violent emotions or behavior
Example:
a stormy marriage
Synonyms:
stormy; tempestuous
Classified under:
Similar:
unpeaceful (not peaceful)
Derivation:
storm (a violent commotion or disturbance)
storminess (violent passion in speech or action)
Context examples:
It was no light adventure, this trusting ourselves in a small boat to so raw and stormy a sea, and it was imperative that we should guard ourselves against the cold and wet.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The night, however, was extremely dark and stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it was quite impossible to effect a rescue.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The autumn of that year was a stormy one, and there was a long succession of southerly gales.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The snapshot of Uranus, like the image of Neptune, reveals a dominant feature: a vast bright stormy cloud cap across the north pole.
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And all the heavens became black with stormy clouds, and the lightnings played, and the thunders rolled; and you might have seen in the sea great black waves, swelling up like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The new results showed a stormy scene: particles blasted off the moon’s icy surface as a result of incoming plasma rain, and strong flows of plasma pushed between Jupiter and Ganymede due to an explosive magnetic event occurring between the two bodies’ magnetic environments.
(Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On, NASA)
It was over, however, at last; and the evening set in with more composure to Fanny, and more cheerfulness of spirits than she could have hoped for after so stormy a morning; but she trusted, in the first place, that she had done right: that her judgment had not misled her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
On stormy nights, when the wind shook the four corners of the house and the surf roared along the cove and up the cliffs, I would see him in a thousand forms, and with a thousand diabolical expressions.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The man stood, tall and square, blocking the entrance to the bridge, and throwing out his hands as he spoke in a wild eager fashion, while the deep tones of his stormy voice rose at times into accents of menace and of anger.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
