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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
tempest
n 1: a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had
characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was
only a tempest in a teapot" [syn: storm, tempest]
2: (literary) a violent wind; "a tempest swept over the island"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Tempest \Tem"pest\, n. [OF. tempeste, F. temp[^e]te, (assumed)
LL. tempesta, fr. L. tempestas a portion of time, a season,
weather, storm, akin to tempus time. See Temporal of time.]
1. An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity
and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or
snow; a furious storm.
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[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled,
Each on his rock transfixed. --Milton.
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2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political
tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
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3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum,
n., 4. [Archaic] --Smollett.
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Note: Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of
self-explaining compounds; as, tempest-beaten,
tempest-loving, tempest-tossed, tempest-winged, and the
like.
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Syn: Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Tempest \Tem"pest\, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. temp[^e]ter to
rage.]
To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.]
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Part huge of bulk
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
Tempest the ocean. --Milton.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Tempest \Tem"pest\, v. i.
To storm. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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Thesaurus Results for tempest:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
agitation, black squall, blaze, blizzard, blow, brouhaha, burst, chaos, commotion, convulsion, cyclone, dirty weather, disorder, disruption, disturbance, equinoctial, eruption, explosion, ferment, fit, flare-up, foul weather, gale, gust, half a gale, heavy blow, hurly-burly, hurricane, ill wind, irruption, line squall, line storm, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, perturbation, rainstorm, riot, rough weather, seizure, snowstorm, spasm, squall, squall line, storm, storm wind, stormy weather, stormy winds, strong wind, tempestuous rage, tempestuous wind, thick squall, thundersquall, thunderstorm, tornado, tropical cyclone, tumult, turbulence, typhoon, ugly wind, unrest, upheaval, uproar, violent blow, whirlwind, white squall, whole gale, williwaw, wind-shift line, windstorm |
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Common Misspellings > |
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