tempestuous

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

characterized by violent emotions or behavior
(of the elements) as if showing violent anger

Adj

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; also, of a place: frequently experiencing tempests; (very) stormy.
Characterized by disorderly, frenetic, or violent activity; stormy, tumultuous, turbulent; also, of a person, their behaviour or nature, etc.: characterized by bouts of bad temper or sudden changes of mood; impetuous, stormy, temperamental.

Origin / Etymology

From Late Middle English tempestious, tempestous, tempestuous (“stormy, turbulent, tempestuous”), from Anglo-Norman tempestous, and Old French tempesteus, tempestos, tempestous, tempestuose (modern French tempétueux), and directly from its etymon Latin tempestuōsus (“stormy, turbulent, tempestuous; impetuous”), from tempestās, tempestūs (“point or period of time; season; weather, specifically bad weather; storm, tempest”) (from tempus (“period of time; (rare) weather”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- (“to cut”) or *ten- (“to extend, stretch”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). The English word is equivalent to tempest + -uous (a variant of -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting the presence of a quality, typically in abundance)).

Synonyms

angry, breme, furious, nimbose, procellous, raging, stormy, wild

Antonyms

untempestuous

Scrabble Score: 15

tempestuous is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
tempestuous is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tempestuous is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 19

tempestuous is a valid Words With Friends word