Usually means: Characterized by disorder and instability.
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  1. tumultuous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tumultuous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tumultuous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tumultuous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tumultuous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tumultuous, tumultuous: Wordnik
  7. tumultuous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tumultuous: Wiktionary
  9. tumultuous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tumultuous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tumultuous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tumultuous: Dictionary.com
  13. tumultuous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Tumultuous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tumultuous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. tumultuous: Rhymezone
  17. Tumultuous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tumultuous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. tumultuous: Free Dictionary
  20. tumultuous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. tumultuous: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. tumultuous: Legal dictionary

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  1. Tumultuous: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Characterized by loud, confused noise.
▸ adjective:  Causing or characterized by tumult; chaotic, disorderly, turbulent.

Similar:
riotous, turbulent, disruptive, troubled, unquiet, tumultuos, tumultuary, uproarious, boisterous, uproarish, more...

Opposite:
calm, quiet, serene, peaceful

Types:
hectic, chaotic, frenzied, disorderly, unruly, more...

Phrases:
tumultuous disturbance, tumultuous times, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     burgundy,     maroon, more...

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Similar:
riotous, turbulent, disruptive, troubled, unquiet, tumultuos, tumultuary, uproarious, boisterous, uproarish, more...

Opposite:
calm, quiet, serene, peaceful

Types:
hectic, chaotic, frenzied, disorderly, unruly, more...

Phrases:
tumultuous disturbance, tumultuous times, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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