Category:Tumultuous

Tu*mul"tu*ous, a. Etym: [l. tumultuosus: cf. F. tumultueux.]

1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. Macaulay.

2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; As, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.

3. Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed. His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth now rolling, boils in his Tumultuous breast. Milton.

4. Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.

Syn. -- disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent; violent; Agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless; riotous; seditious. -- tu*mul"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- tu*mul"tu*ous*ness, n.