Definition of Tumultuous

Tumultuous

Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.

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

Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.

Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.

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Tumultuous Quotations

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.
Sylvester Stallone

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.
Peggy Fleming

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
Robert Browning Hamilton

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.
Roy H. Williams

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.
James MacArthur

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.
Charles Hodge

Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.
Kenneth Grahame

Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.
Douglas Wood

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
Paul Eldridge

It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything.
Colin Quinn

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Tumultuous Translations

tumultuous in Spanish is tumultuoso

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