Another word for turbulent
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Adjective
Violently disturbed or agitated, as by storms
- Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
- Not inhabited or farmed:
- Uncivilized or barbarous.
- Causing or intending to cause damage, injury, or death, often when involving great force:
- Characterized by or displaying physical violence:
- Caused by unexpected force or injury rather than by natural causes:
- Displeasing to the eye; unsightly.
- Repulsive or offensive; objectionable:
- Rude:
- Very loud; noisy:
- Characterized by disorderly commotion:
- Characterized by mental or emotional agitation:
- Characterized by violent emotions or actions; tumultuous:
- Of, relating to, or resembling a tempest:
- Subject to, characterized by, or affected by storms; tempestuous.
- Characterized by violent emotions, passions, speech, or actions:
- Having a rough irregular surface:
- Having strong features marked with furrows or wrinkles:
- Having a sturdy build or strong constitution:
- Having a surface marked by irregularities, protuberances, or ridges; not smooth:
- Coarse or shaggy to the touch:
- Difficult to travel over or through:
- Full of sediment; muddy or cloudy.
- Turbulent; agitated.
- Simple past tense and past participle of roil.
- Very active and unpredictable; volatile:
- Remarkable; extraordinary:
- Having relatively great weight:
- Having relatively high density; having a high specific gravity.
- Large, as in number or quantity:
- Covered or marked with dirt or an unwanted substance; unclean.
- Spreading dirt; polluting:
- Apt to soil with dirt or grime:
See also:Marked by unrest or disturbance
- Very loud; noisy:
- Characterized by disorderly commotion:
- Characterized by mental or emotional agitation:
- Characterized by violent emotions or actions; tumultuous:
- Of, relating to, or resembling a tempest:
- Subject to, characterized by, or affected by storms; tempestuous.
- Characterized by violent emotions, passions, speech, or actions:
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Another word for turbulent
Modifier
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- Making, given to, or marked by noisy and vehement outcry.
- Serving to manifest or prove.
- Involving or characterized by demonstration.
- Given to or marked by the open expression of emotion:
- Present participle of shake.
- A movement that shakes.
- Present participle of foam.
- simple past tense and past participle of perturb
- Disturbed; flustered.
- Loud or noisy and lively or unrestrained:
- Rough and stormy; violent:
- Of or affected by rabies.
- Raging; uncontrollable:
- Extremely zealous or enthusiastic; fanatical:
- Consisting of or containing fire.
- Burning or glowing.
- Using or effected with fire.
- Having or being a taste that is sharp, acrid, and unpleasant.
- Causing a sharply unpleasant, painful, or stinging sensation; harsh:
- Difficult or distasteful to accept, admit, or bear:
- Hard, harsh, or severe in manner or character:
- Showing or expressing displeasure or disapproval; forbidding or harsh:
- Firm or unyielding; uncompromising:
- Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated; firm or solid:
- Well protected from an attack, as by aerial bombardment:
- Requiring great effort or endurance:
- Causing or wreaking destruction; ruinous:
- Designed or tending to disprove or discredit:
- Prone to or participating in a rebellion:
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of a rebel or rebellion:
- Characterized by or expressing resistance to or defiance of authority or convention:
- Of, engaged in, disposed to, or constituting mutiny.
- Unruly; disaffected:
- Turbulent and uncontrollable:
- Marked by trembling, quivering, or shaking:
- Marked by a rapid varying between pitches or tones:
- Timid or fearful:
- Making or marked by loud outcry or sustained din.
- Insistently demanding; importunate.
- Causing or accompanied by an uproar:
- Loud and full; boisterous:
- Causing hearty laughter; hilarious:
- Present participle of storm.
- The act by which something is stormed.
- Feeling or showing anger; incensed or enraged:
- Indicative of or resulting from anger:
- Having a menacing aspect; threatening:
- Noisily unruly or defiant:
- Having a surface marked by irregularities, protuberances, or ridges; not smooth:
- Coarse or shaggy to the touch:
- Difficult to travel over or through:
- Ill-mannered, discourteous, or insulting:
- Undeveloped or uncivilized; primitive:
- Crude, unfinished, or made with limited skill:
- Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
- Not inhabited or farmed:
- Uncivilized or barbarous.
- Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
- Characterized by or showing hostility:
- Extremely powerful or destructive:
- shaken; perturbed; excited
- in a state of chaos; in a completely confused or disordered condition
- of or having to do with the theories, dynamics, etc. of mathematical chaos
- Being in a condition of confusion or disarray.
- Physically or mentally ill.
- Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
- Lacking regular or logical order or arrangement:
- Undisciplined; unruly:
- Disturbing the public peace or decorum.
- Unrestrained by law; unruly:
- Contrary to the law; unlawful:
- Not governed by law:
- Disorderly; rough:
- A rough, disorderly person.
- Extending unchecked; unrestrained:
- Occurring without restraint and frequently, widely, or menacingly; rife:
- Rearing on the hind legs.
- Characterized by violent emotions or actions; tumultuous:
- Of, relating to, or resembling a tempest:
- Very lively or successful; thriving:
- Used as an intensive:
- Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid:
- Not under control, discipline, or governance.
- Capable of, having, or dominated by powerful emotions:
- Wrathful by temperament; choleric.
- Marked by strong sexual desire; amorous or lustful.
- Being in a state of excitement; emotionally aroused; stirred.
- Being at an energy level higher than the ground state.
- Very loud; noisy:
- Characterized by disorderly commotion:
- Characterized by mental or emotional agitation:
- Stormy:
- Showing no clemency; unmerciful.
- Producing thunder or a similar sound.
- Loud and unrestrained in a way that suggests thunder:
- Marked by the sound of howling:
- Desolate; dreary:
- Very great; tremendous:
- Very active and unpredictable; volatile:
- Remarkable; extraordinary:
- Characterized by a lack of quiet, repose, or rest:
- Not able to rest, relax, or be still:
- Having or showing a persistent desire for change or action:
- Making noise:
- Full of, characterized by, or accompanied by noise:
- Unsettled, broken up, or altered in structure or function:
- Being or resulting from being emotionally or mentally troubled:
- Subject to, characterized by, or affected by storms; tempestuous.
- Characterized by violent emotions, passions, speech, or actions:
- Causing or intending to cause damage, injury, or death, often when involving great force:
- Characterized by or displaying physical violence:
- Caused by unexpected force or injury rather than by natural causes:
- Of, relating to, or resembling a riot.
- Participating in or inciting to riot or uproar.
- Uproarious; boisterous:
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