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Synonyms
bang-bang, blood-and-guts, convulsive, cyclonic, explosive, ferocious, fierce, furious, hammer-and-tongs, hot, knock-down, drag-out (or knock-down-and-drag-out), paroxysmal, rabid, rough, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, violent, volcanic
Antonyms
nonviolent, peaceable, peaceful
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But on a stormy evening five days later, a fire broke out on the top story, incinerating a classroom. — Perry Stein, Washington Post, "Days before opening, a fire erupted in a D.C. school. The principal is unbowed.," 20 Aug. 2019 One drawback became clear during a break in the rain over the stormy weekend. — Megan Barber, Curbed, "Why this vintage-style camper is the future of travel trailers," 14 Aug. 2019 But really, a familiarity with the Fijian climate means executives should have seen the rainclouds and stormy weather — which put a literal damper on the show’s early episodes — coming. — Kate Samuelson, Time, "CBS Renewed Love Island Despite Lackluster Ratings. Can the Show Find its Happily Ever After in Season Two?," 12 Aug. 2019 Maeda breezed through two innings before getting pulled after a stormy two-thirds. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Dodgers beat Padres in ninth," 4 Aug. 2019 Even office air conditioning systems strained under the hot, dry air that was trapped between two stormy weather systems. — Anchorage Daily News, "Europe melts under Sahara heat wave, smashes heat records," 26 July 2019 Authorities said the temperature was still rising, as a result of hot, dry air coming from northern Africa that's trapped between cold stormy systems. — Angela Charlton And Kirsten Grieshaber, Houston Chronicle, "Paris hits new heat record, London boils in Europe heat wave," 25 July 2019 However, the bright side of a stormy year was a youthful line-up that grew by playing as freshmen and sophomores. — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, "Ohio State, Northwestern, UC, UK, Iowa State, others recruiting La Salle's football talent," 16 July 2019 Of greater concern is a patch of stormy weather in the middle of the Atlantic, which is given a 70 percent chance of strengthening and organizing itself into a tropical depression, the first step toward becoming a tropical storm or hurricane. — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, "Heavy rain, high tides will make for a wet South Florida weekend," 1 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'stormy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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