tempestuous

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /tɛmˈpɛstʃuəs/ UK /tɛmˈpɛstjuəs/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adj
characterized by strong, turbulent emotion or weather

Their tempestuous romance was full of fights and reconciliations.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · characterized by strong,... stormy turbulent tumultuous violent wild passionate volatile

Opposites

calm placid tranquil serene

Word family

Forms tempestuously

Derived forms tempestuouslytempestuousness

Related forms tempest temporal tempo

Etymology

From Late Latin tempestuosus, from Latin tempestas ('storm, weather, season'), from tempus ('time').

tempestas Latin tempus Latin

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Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# tempestuous

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /tɛmˈpɛstʃuəs/
**IPA (UK):** /tɛmˈpɛstjuəs/

## Meanings
1. characterized by strong, turbulent emotion or weather

## Examples
- Their tempestuous romance was full of fights and reconciliations.

## Synonyms
- stormy
- turbulent
- tumultuous
- violent
- wild
- passionate
- volatile

## Antonyms
- calm
- placid
- tranquil
- serene

## Derived Forms
- tempestuously
- tempestuousness

## Related Forms
- tempest
- temporal
- tempo

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: tempestas
- Root: tempus

## Etymology
From Late Latin tempestuosus, from Latin tempestas ('storm, weather, season'), from tempus ('time').

## AI Etymology
Tempestuous comes from Late Latin tempestuosus, from Latin tempestas ('storm, weather, season'), from tempus ('time'). The historical chain includes Latin tempestas and Latin tempus. The quoted older senses, "storm, weather, season" and "time", supply the semantic anchors for tempestuous. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word tempestuous carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "characterized by strong, turbulent emotion or weather". English derivatives include tempestuously and tempestuousness; related English forms include tempest, temporal, and tempo. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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