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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worry; mental upset |
| Synonyms: | ailment, alarm, angst, anxiety, care, concern, concernment, disquietude, distress, disturbance, fear, ferment, foreboding, fretfulness, inquietude, nervousness, restiveness, restlessness, solicitude, storm, trouble, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest |
| Antonyms: | calm, collectedness, ease, peace |
| Main Entry: | downfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgrace, ruin |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, bane, breakdown, cloudburst, collapse, comedown, comeuppance, debacle, decadence, declension, degeneracy, degeneration, deluge, descent, destruction, deterioration, devolution, discomfiture, down, drop, failure, fall, flood, on the rocks, overthrow, rack and ruin, road to ruin, ruination, storm, the skids, undoing |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, ascent, rise, success |
| Main Entry: | downpour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tremendous pouring of rain |
| Synonyms: | cloudburst, deluge, drencher, flood, inundation, monsoon, rainstorm, storm, torrential rain |
| Antonyms: | sprinkle |
| Main Entry: | ferment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agitation, uprising |
| Synonyms: | ailment, brouhaha, clamor, commotion, convulsion, disquiet, disquietude, disruption, disturbance, excitement, fever, flap, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat, hell broke loose, hubbub, imbroglio, outcry, restiveness, restlessness, row, rumble, scene, state of unrest, stew, stink*, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval, uproar, upturn |
| Antonyms: | calm, contentedness, happiness, peace, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger, wrath |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, asperity, boiling point, conniption, energy, ferocity, fierceness, fire, flare-up, force, frenzy, furor, impetuosity, indignation, intensity, ire, madness, might, passion, power, rabidity, rage, rampancy, rise, savagery, severity, slow burn, sore, stew, storm*, tempestuousness, turbulence, vehemence, violence |
| Notes: | ire suggests greater intensity than anger, rage suggests loss of self-control, and fury is destructive rage verging on madness |
| Antonyms: | calm, happiness, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fuss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disturbance, trouble |
| Synonyms: | ado, agitation, altercation, argument, bickering, bother, broil, bustle, commotion, complaint, confusion, controversy, difficulty, display, dispute, excitement, falling-out, fight, flap, flurry, flutter, fret, furor, hassle, kick-up, objection, palaver, perturbation, quarrel, row, ruckus, scene, squabble, stew, stink*, stir, storm, to-do, turmoil, unrest, upset, wingding, worry |
| Antonyms: | calm, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rush, eruption |
| Synonyms: | access, blast, blow, breeze, burst, explosion, fit, flare-up, flurry, gale, outburst, paroxysm, passion, puff, sally, squall, storm, surge |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | hail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | torrent |
| Synonyms: | barrage, bombardment, broadside, cannonade, hailstorm, pelting, rain, salvo, shower, storm, volley |
| Main Entry: | hurricane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violent windstorm |
| Synonyms: | blow, cyclone, gale, line storm, monsoon, storm, tempest, tornado, tropical cyclone, tropical storm, twister, typhoon, whirlwind |
| Notes: | a hurricane is a severe tropical storm that starts east of the International Date Line (Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico) and a typhoon is a severe tropical storm that starts west of this line (Pacific Ocean, China Sea) |
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