Synonyms for tempest
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Noun
1. Storm
storm, gale, squall, hurricane, tumult, tornado, commotion, disturbance, agitation, perturbation
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Definitions
- n. 1
A storm, especially one with severe winds.
Related words
- Word family
- tempest-tossed tempestuous
Forms
- Plural
- tempests → storms, gales, squalls, hurricanes…
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A tempest is a storm of extreme violence, always attended with some precipitation, as of rain, from the atmosphere. In the moral and figurative use, storm and tempest are not closely discriminated, except that tempest commonly implies greater intensity.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- storm The outdoor concert was canceled due to the storm.
- hurricane The death toll from the hurricane climbed to 200.
- gale Have you seen how it's blowing a gale outside?
- squall It looks like there will be a squall this evening.
By length
- 4 letters
- gale1
- 5 letters
- storm1
- 6 letters
- squall1, tumult2
- 7 letters
- tornado3
- 9 letters
- hurricane3, agitation4, commotion3
- 11 letters
- disturbance3
- 12 letters
- perturbation4, stormbringer
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tumult2 = 2 syllables).