Word Meanings - TURBULENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean. Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. Milton. 2. Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory;

Additional info about word: TURBULENT

1. Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean. Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. Milton. 2. Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits. Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit. Dryden. 3. Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting. Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes. Milton. Syn. -- Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; riotous; seditious; insubordinate; refractory; unquiet.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TURBULENT)

• Mutinous
• Turbulent
• seditious
• insurgent
• riotous
• tumultuous
• unruly
• refractory
• insurrectionary
• Rude
• Impertinent
• rough
• shapeless
• unfashioned
• artless
• unpolished
• uncouth
• inelegant
• rustic
• coarse
• vulgar
• clownish
• raw
• unskilful
• untaught
• illiterate
• ignorant
• uncivil
• saucy
• impolite
• impudent
• insolent
• surly
• churlish
• brutal
• uncivilized
• barbarous
• savage
• violent
• turbulent
• Impetuous
• boisterous
• harsh
• inclement
• severe
• Insulting
• grotesque
• barbaric
• archaic
• Seditious
• Insurgent
• rebellious
• factious
• mutinous
• Tempestuous
• Stormy
• squally
• Tumultuous
• Disorderly
• disturbed
• confused
• agitate
• lawless

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• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• IMPUDENT
  Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy. More than impudent sauciness. Shak. When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent. Dryden. Syn. -- Shameless; audacious; brazen;
• MUTINOUS
  Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate. The city was becoming mutinous. Macaulay. -- Mu"ti*nous*ly, adv. -- Mu"ti*nous*ness, n.
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• ILLITERATE
  Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people. Syn. -- Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary. See Ignorant. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ness, n.
• INCLEMENT
  1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. 2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• FACTIOUS
  1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster.
• RIOTOUS
  1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. 2. Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly
• INSOLENTLY
  In an insolent manner.
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. Chaucer.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET