tumultuous

Meanings

• adjective

  marked by or causing disorder, confusion, or commotion.

  - "The crowd was tumultuous during the football match."
  - "The political climate in the country was tumultuous."
  - "The riot was a tumultuous display of chaos."

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Pronunciation

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Antonyms

untumultuous

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Synonyms

noisy , uproarious , riotous , tempestuous , tumultuary

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with tumultuous
rumbles , mumbles , grumbles , numbles

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Variants

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tumultuous , tumultuously , tumultuousness , tumultuousnesses

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Etymology

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From the Latin tumultus, meaning 'disturbance, tumult, tumultuary, tumultuous'.

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Trivia

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1. The term tumultuous is often used in politics to describe a situation of great disorder or instability.

2. In music, a tumultuous passage is one that is marked by intense emotion or drama.

3. The adjective tumultuous is derived from the Latin word tumultus, which means 'disturbance, tumult, tumultuary, tumultuous'.

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Related Concepts

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1. chaos: Chaos and tumultuous are related concepts, as both refer to a state of confusion or disorder.

2. emotion: Tumultuous is often used to describe intense emotional states, such as passion or anger.

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Quotes

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1. We were not accustomed to loran, and to pick up a buoy, as I now did with my binoculars, after thirty days of "tumultuous" seas, at precisely the time and angle that our charted position led us to anticipate, struck me as nothing short of miraculous.

   - Louis Auchincloss,"Atlantic War",{"source"=>"in {it}Authors at Sea{/it}, Robert Shenk, ed.", "aqdate"=>"1997"}

2. The "tumultuous" sensual undercurrent of the Orient had, like water in the desert, gone underground and though perhaps it bubbled up behind courtyard walls, in public places it kept out of sight.

   - Leila Hadley,{it}Give Me the World{/it},(1958) 1999

3. For someone with such a "tumultuous" inner world, the muscular choice-is-all school of moral philosophy could not be satisfactory.

   - Martha C. Nussbaum,{it}New Republic{/it},31 Dec. 2001

4. The teams walked onto the field to "tumultuous" applause.

   - J. K. Rowling,{it}Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets{/it},1999

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Culture

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In literature, tumultuous is often used to describe chaotic scenes or emotional states. For example, in Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth describes her husband's sleep as 'full of the milk of human kindness' before urging him to commit murder, and later laments, 'My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white.' This use of the word tumultuous highlights the contrast between Macbeth's calm exterior and his inner turmoil.

How to Memorize "tumultuous"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a large crowd of people shouting and pushing each other, creating a tumultuous scene.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word tumultuous with chaos, disorder, and intense emotions.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Tumultuous is to chaos as a storm is to calm' to remember the meaning of the word.

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