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/ˌtɛmˈpɛstʃuəs/
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[ UK /tɛmpˈɛstʃuːəs/ ]
[ UK /tɛmpˈɛstʃuːəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by violent emotions or behavior
a stormy marriage
a stormy argument -
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger
furious winds
angry clouds on the horizon
the raging sea
How To Use tempestuous In A Sentence
- Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude.
- For years, the couple's tempestuous relationship made the headlines.
- With Maureen and Jane it seemed improbable, but every now and then I caught myself wondering if the tempestuous Alessandra felt even a slight tendresse. Why Women Still Don't Get It
- It will be a difficult task as the ship has become overloaded, capricious and the ocean is tempestuous.
- He sang in choirs, played at balls and weddings and baptisms, made "arrangements" for anybody who would employ him, and in short drudged very much as Wagner did at the outset of his tempestuous career. Joseph Haydn
- One forlorn fragment of dollanity had belonged to Jo and, having led a tempestuous life, was left a wreck in the rag bag, from which dreary poorhouse it was rescued by Beth and taken to her refuge.
- We may well imagine that such scenes were preceded as well as accompanied by a fearful racket within (a familiar device of our low comedy and extravaganza), the effect probably heightened by tempestuous _melodrama_ on the _tibiae_, as both the scenes cited are in _canticum_. The Dramatic Values in Plautus
- I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man who, in mid-winter just landed from a four years’ dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term.
- In the freedom of this rather unalluring garb she entered into relations Platonic, fraternal, or tempestuously passionate with perhaps the most distinguished series of friends and lovers that ever fluttered about one flame. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
- They were tossed upon a tempestuous sea.