Results for turbulent

Definitions of turbulent:

part of speech: adjective

Tumultuous, disturbed: in violent commotion: disposed to disorder: restless: producing commotion.

part of speech: adjective

Being in violent commotion; restless; disturbed; tumultuous; producing commotion; refractory; insubordinate.

part of speech: adjective

Disorderly; uncontrollable, as, a turbulent nature; agitated; wild; as, a turbulant stream; restless; noisy; riotous; disturbing; as, a turbulent crowd of people.

part of speech: adverb

TURBULENTLY.

Usage examples for turbulent:

• They took highly magnified, long- exposure photographs of Mars, pictures that could not possibly be made with such distinctness from the bottom of Earth's turbulent ocean of air. "Space Tug", Murray Leinster

• This was the real Lake Champlain, for it is a very turbulent mass of water and rarely presents a picture of such calm and quiet beauty as we beheld on the preceding evening. "See America First", Orville O. Hiestand

• This is of course wholly inartistic, but may often find its true office in keeping a noisy, turbulent and uneducated audience aware of " what is going on." "The Dramatic Values in Plautus", Wilton Wallace Blancke

• There were, however, many who doubted whether the man had a character and will powerful enough to dominate the turbulent forces of Canadian politics. "British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government 1839-1854", J. L. Morison