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adjective

Stormy adj. (compar. stormier; superl. stormiest)

Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week. "Beyond the stormy Hebrides."

Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.

Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions. "Stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain."

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Etymology of 'Stormy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stormy" Quotes from Famous Books

... the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters; these men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep: their soul melteth away because of the trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man: and are at their wits' end. So when they cry unto the Lord ...

— The Wreck on the Andamans • Joseph Darvall

... watching the sailors at their rope-hauling and climbing work; joining in their songs, learning the names of the ropes and sails, and helping them as far as they would let us; playing games with other boys in calm weather when the deck was dry, and in stormy weather rejoicing in sympathy ...

— The Story of My Boyhood and Youth • John Muir

... making a hissing sound in the water. Those in the boat wore rubber coats, for Captain Craig had supplied them at his boathouse before starting out. He owned a boat dock, and also a fishing pier, and supplied pleasure parties with nearly everything they needed for fair weather or stormy. ...

— The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair • Laura Lee Hope

... his receiver at Dover recorded the first wireless message sent across the British Channel from Boulogne in 1899—just the letters V M and three or four words in the Morse alphabet of dots and dashes. He had bridged that space of stormy, restless water with an invisible, intangible something that could be neither seen, felt, nor heard, and yet was stronger and surer than steel—a connection that nothing could interrupt, that no barrier could prevent. The first message from England ...

— Stories of Inventors - The Adventures Of Inventors And Engineers • Russell Doubleday

... one of two hundred years in two days, let him take it from its case, then lay it upon the ground and mention what place he desires to go, it will instantly be in motion, and rush over the earth like the blast of the stormy gale. He must then follow it till he arrives at the place desired, which he will have the ...

— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 4 • Anon.

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