Stormy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stormy \Storm"y\, a. [Compar. {Stormier}; superl. {Stormiest}.]
     1. Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to
        storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous;
        tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
        "Beyond the stormy Hebrides." --Milton.
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     2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy
        sound; stormy shocks.
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     3. Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.
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              Stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain.
                                                    --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stormy
       adj 1: (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms
              or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas"
              [ant: {calm}]
       2: characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy
          argument"; "a stormy marriage"
       [also: {stormiest}, {stormier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "stormy":
     Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, anarchic, angry, bad,
     blustering, blusterous, blustery, castellatus, chaotic, cirrose,
     cirrous, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, cumuliform, cumulous,
     cyclonic, dark, dark and gloomy, dirty, dusty, feverish, fierce,
     fiery, foul, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, funereal, furious,
     gloomful, glooming, gloomy, heavy, hellish, hotheaded, howling,
     ill-lighted, ill-lit, impetuous, inclement, infuriate, insensate,
     lenticularis, lowering, mad, mammatus, mindless, murky, nasty,
     nebulous, nerve-racking, nimbose, nubilous, orgasmic, orgastic,
     overcast, overclouded, pandemoniac, passionate, raging, rainy,
     ravening, raving, rip-roaring, roaring, rough, simmering, somber,
     sombrous, squally, storming, stratiform, stratous, tempestuous,
     threatening, thunderheaded, tornadic, troublous, tumultuous,
     turbulent, typhonic, typhoonish, uproarious, vehement, violent,
     volcanic, wild