Tempest

Quick meaning: Tempest is a noun meaning A storm, especially one with severe winds.

Meaning

A storm, especially one with severe winds.

More Meanings

1. Any violent tumult or commotion.
2. (intransitive, rare) To storm.
3. (transitive, chiefly poetic) To disturb, as by a tempest.
4. (obsolete) A fashionable social gathering; a drum.

Example Sentences

Comforted with these reflections, the tempest of his soul subsided

Oh! dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve, And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air.

. . . the seal And bended dolphins play; part huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean.

As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic.

Word Forms

• tempests
• tempesting
• tempested

Synonyms for tempest

Depending on context, synonyms include storm.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include storm, rainstorm, bourasque, snowstorm, blizzard, firestorm.

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