tumultuous

adj
/tjʊˈmʌl.tjʊ.əs/UK/tuˈmʌl.t͡ʃu.əs/US/təˈmɐl.t͡ʃʊ.əs/

Etymology

From Old French tumultuous (modern French tumultueux), from Latin tumultuōsus (“restless, turbulent”), from tumultus (“disturbance, uproar, violent commotion, tumult; agitation, disturbance, excitement”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns).

  1. derived from tumultuōsus
  2. derived from tumultuous

Definitions

  1. Characterized by loud, confused noise.

    • Down showers tumultuous music from the belfry of Old Trinity— / Merry chiming for His birth, and gave songs for His Divinity!
  2. Causing or characterized by tumult

    Causing or characterized by tumult; chaotic, disorderly, turbulent.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tumultuous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01tumultuous02chaotic03disarray04disorder05disturbance06commotion07turbulent

A definitional loop anchored at tumultuous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at tumultuous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA