tempestuous

tempestuous
    adj 1: characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy
           argument"; "a stormy marriage" [syn: {stormy},
           {tempestuous}]
    2: (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds
       on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn:
       {angry}, {furious}, {raging}, {tempestuous}, {wild}]
    

Tempestuous \Tem*pes"tu*ous\, a. [L. tempestuous: cf. OF.
   tempestueux, F. temp[^e]tueux.]
   Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a
   tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather;
   a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. --
   {Tem*pes"tu*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Tem*pes"tu*ous*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]

         They saw the Hebrew leader,
         Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard.
                                                  --Longfellow.
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58 Moby Thesaurus words for "tempestuous":
      anarchic, angry, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous,
      chaotic, clamorous, cloudy, coarse, cyclonic, dirty, disruptive,
      fierce, fiery, foul, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hellish,
      hotheaded, impassioned, impetuous, infuriate, insensate, mad,
      mindless, orgasmic, orgastic, pandemoniac, passionate, raging,
      rainy, ravening, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, rough, simmering,
      storming, stormy, tornadic, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent,
      typhonic, typhoonish, unbridled, uncontrollable, uncontrolled,
      unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, volcanic, wild,
      wrathful