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stormy

stormy

16 3.1
Strong angry feelings and conflict between people
  • adjective
  • /ˈstɔrmi/
translation icon : turbulento
  • Many people wrote about the stormy romance between the two characters in the novel.
  • stormy relationship
  • stormy meetings
  • stormy political

Yes, first will be stormy and then tough.

Examples

  • The second marriage to Marie Andersen, although stormy, was much more successful.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Their stormy relationship was filled with arguments and passionate reconciliations.

  • "I know our relationship has been stormy lately.

  • Sounds like a real stormy romance.

  • Emotion as stormy as this was something I had never seen or tried to cope with.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • In any case, Wally's next visit was a stormy one and did little to improve our financial situation.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • They had been having quite a stormy affair.

  • I was told several stories about the stormy relationship between Luliya and Bashir.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Relations between the two offices had been stormy ever since the reestablishment of the patriarchate in 1847.

    Academic text (2018)
  • A symbiotic, albeit stormy, relationship ensues, which Ferguson recounts in colorful detail.

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

turbulent
vsstormy
34 6.6

Full of confusion and disorder among people, politics, or events

is specifically about strong emotions and interpersonal conflict
tempestuous
vsstormy
7 8.4

Full of strong, stormy feelings, often with loud arguments

is limited to intense emotions, conflict, and tumult in people or relationships
storm-tossed
vsstormy
1 7.9

Hit hard by strong storms or many serious problems

is about strong violent emotions and conflict, not external physical battering
tempest-tost
vsstormy
  • Archaic
1 9.9

Beaten by storms and hard times

is focused on internal emotional conflict and intense feelings rather than external battering

Antonyms

473 2.3

Not likely to change and stays steady over time

428 1.0

Calm and quiet, without noise or trouble

Compounds

A small dark seabird with white marks that flies low over the sea in storms

How Stormy

tempestuous
7 8.4
stormy
16 3.1
volatile
34 7.4
uneasy
98 3.2
calm
735 1.0

Surface Forms

stormy positive
stormier comparative
stormiest superlative

Morphology

stormy = storm (semi-transparent) = storm + y

The adjective is formed regularly from 'storm' but the sense is metaphorical (emotional turbulence), so the relation to the base is figurative rather than strictly literal.

Etymology

Stormy first comes from the old word storm, meaning 'violent weather', and people began to use it as a picture for strong feelings and fights. That's why a stormy relationship or meeting is 'full of conflict' and sudden emotion.