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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | long, painful cry |
| Synonyms: | bark, bawl, bay, bellow, blubber, clamor, groan, growl, hoot, keen, lament, moan, outcry, quest, roar, scream, shout, shriek, ululate, wail, weep, whimper, whine, yell, yelp, yip, yowl |
| Main Entry: | cry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weeping and making sad sounds |
| Synonyms: | bawl, bawling, bewailing, blubber, blubbering, howl, howling, keening, lament, lamentation, mourning, shedding tears, snivel, snivelling, sob, sobbing, sorrowing, tears, the blues, wailing, weep, whimpering, yowl |
| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, brutish, cruel, cutthroat, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, flipped, frightening, furious, horrible, howling, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, tigerish, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
| Main Entry: | guffaw |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burst of laughter |
| Synonyms: | belly laugh, deep laugh, howl, howling, laughter, loud laugh, roar, shout, shriek, snort |
| Main Entry: | laugh/laughter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | audible expression of amusement |
| Synonyms: | amusement, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chuckle, chuckling, crack-up, crow, fit, gesture, giggle, giggling, glee, guffaw, hilarity, howling, merriment, mirth, peal, rejoicing, roar, shout, shriek, snicker, snigger, snort, sound, titter, yuck |
| Antonyms: | cry |
| Main Entry: | stormy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough (referring to weather) |
| Synonyms: | bitter, blowy, blustering, blustery, boisterous, cold, coming down, damp, dirty, foul, frigid, furious, gusty, howling, menacing, murky, pouring, raging, raining cats and dogs, rainy, riproaring, roaring, savage, squally, stormful, storming, tempestuous, threatening, torrid, turbulent, violent, wet, wild, windy |
| Antonyms: | calm, clear, clement |
| Main Entry: | turbulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsettled, raging (referring to weather) |
| Synonyms: | agitated, bitter, blustering, blustery, boiling, bumpy, choppy, coarse, confused, destructive, disordered, disturbed, fierce, foaming, furious, howling, inclement, moiling, noisy, restless, riotous, roaring, rough, ruffled, rugged, stirred up, stormful, storming, stormy, swirling, tempestuous, thunderous, tremulous, tumultous/ tumultuous, unstable, violent, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, mild, moderate, settled |
| Main Entry: | wild |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intense, stormy |
| Synonyms: | blustering, blustery, choppy, disturbed, furious, howling, inclement, raging, rough, storming, tempestuous, turbulent, violent |
| Antonyms: | calm, mild, moderate |
| Main Entry: | laughter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement |
| Synonyms: | amusement, cachinnation, cackle, chortle, chortling, chuckle, chuckling, crack-up, crow, crowing, fit, gesture, giggle, giggling, glee, guffaw, guffawing, har-de-har, hilarity, howling, laugh, merriment, mirth, peal, rejoicing, roar, roaring, shout, shouting, shriek, snicker, snigger, snort, snorting, sound, tehee, titter, tittering, yuck |
| Antonyms: | despair, gloom |
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