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TUMULTUOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
Example:
a turbulent and unruly childhood
Synonyms:
disruptive; riotous; troubled; tumultuous; turbulent
Classified under:
Similar:
unquiet (characterized by unrest or disorder)
Derivation:
tumult; tumultuousness (a state of commotion and noise and confusion)
Context examples:
The prolonged and tumultuous argument that ended by herding us into that room eludes me, though I have a sharp physical memory that, in the course of it, my underwear kept climbing like a damp snake around my legs and intermittent beads of sweat raced cool across my back.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
