Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused |
| Synonyms: | agitated, boisterous, clamorous, disorderly, disturbed, excited, fierce, hectic, irregular, lawless, noisy, obstreperous, passionate, raging, rambunctious, raucous, restless, riotous, rowdy, rowdydowdy, rumbustious, stormy, termagant, turbulent, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, violent, vociferous, wild |
| Notes: | tumult applies only to people, while turmoil is confusion and agitation for people and things; tumultuous can describe things and people |
| Antonyms: | calm, orderly, peaceful |
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| Main Entry: | chaotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | utterly confused |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, deranged, disordered, disorganized, every which way, harum-scarum, helter-skelter, lawless, purposeless, rampageous, riotous, topsy-turvy, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, uncontrolled |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmonized, normal, ordered, organized, quiet, systematic |
| Main Entry: | hectic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frantic, turbulent |
| Synonyms: | animated, boisterous, burning, chaotic, confused, disordered, excited, exciting, fervid, fevered, feverish, flurrying, flustering, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hassle, heated, hell broke loose, jungle*, madhouse, nutsy, restless, riotous, rip-roaring, tumultuous, unsettled, wild, woolly, zoolike |
| Antonyms: | calm, easeful, leisurely, unhurried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blaring, noisy |
| Synonyms: | big, blatant, blustering, boisterous, booming, cacophonous, clamorous, crashing, deafening, deep, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, emphatic, forte, full, full-mouthed, fulminating, heavy, high-sounding, intense, loud-voiced, lusty, obstreperous, pealing, piercing, powerful, rambunctious, raucous, resonant, resounding, ringing, roaring, rowdy, sonorous, stentorian, strident, strong, thundering, tumultuous, turbulent, turned up, uproarious, vehement, vociferous, wakes the dead |
| Antonyms: | inaudible, low, quiet, soft, subdued |
| Main Entry: | riotous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chaotic, wild |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, deranged, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, helter-skelter, insurrectionary, lawless, mutinous, out of control, rampageous, rebellious, rowdy, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, uncontrolled, unruly, violent |
| Main Entry: | roaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loud |
| Synonyms: | big*, blaring, blatant, blustering, boisterous, booming, cacophonous, clamorous, crashing, deafening, deep, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, earsplitting, emphatic, forte, full, full-mouthed, fulminating, heavy*, high-sounding, intense, loud-voiced, lusty, obstreperous, pealing, piercing, powerful, rambunctious, raucous, resonant, resounding, ringing, rowdy, sonorous, stentorian, strident, strong, thundering, tumultuous, turbulent, turned up, uproarious, vehement, vociferous, wakes the dead |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roiled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough |
| Synonyms: | agitated, blustering, blustery, boisterous, buffeting, cacophonous, choppy, coarse, dirty, discordant, dry, furious, grating, gruff, harsh, heavy*, hoarse, husky, inclement, inharmonious, jarring, raging, rasping, raucous, roily, rugged, squally, stormy, stridulent, tempestuous, tumultous/tumultuous, tumultuous, turbulent, ugly*, unmusical, violent, wild |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roily |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough |
| Synonyms: | agitated, blustering, blustery, boisterous, buffeting, cacophonous, choppy, coarse, dirty, discordant, dry, furious, grating, gruff, harsh, heavy*, hoarse, husky, inclement, inharmonious, jarring, raging, rasping, raucous, roiled, rugged, squally, stormy, stridulent, tempestuous, tumultous/tumultuous, tumultuous, turbulent, ugly*, unmusical, violent, wild |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
big sounding, callithumpian, clamorous, clangorous, deafening, deep, ear-deafening, ear-rending, ear-splitting, enough to wake the dead, enough to wake the seven sleepers, fremescent, full, high-sounding, hypnopompic, loud, megalophonic, multisonous, noisy, obstreperous, perstreperous, piercing, polyphloisboian, powerful, rackety, randan, raucous, routous, shrill, sonorous, stentophonic, stentorian, stertorous, strepent, thundering, tonant, tonitruous, trumpet-tongued, uproarious
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