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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | angry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being mad, often extremely mad |
| Synonyms: | affronted, annoyed, antagonized, bitter, chafed, choleric, convulsed, cross, displeased, enraged, exacerbated, exasperated, ferocious, fierce, fiery, fuming, furious, galled, hateful, heated, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, impassioned, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriated, irascible, irate, ireful, irritable, irritated, maddened, nettled, offended, outraged, piqued, provoked, raging, resentful, riled, sore, splenetic, storming, sulky, sullen, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uptight, vexed, wrathful |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, content, happy, joyful, joyous |
| Main Entry: | blustery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stormy |
| Synonyms: | gusting, gusty, howling, inclement, raging, roaring, rough, tempestuous, turbulent, violent, wild, windy |
| Antonyms: | calm, still |
| 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: | disorderly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing trouble; unlawful |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, disobedient, disruptive, drunk, fractious, indisciplined, intemperate, noisy, obstreperous, off-base, on-a-tear, out-of-line, out-of-order, raucous, rebellious, refractory, riotous, rowdy, stormy, termagant, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uncompliant, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wayward |
| Antonyms: | behaved, conforming, disciplined, manageable, orderly, well-behaved |
| Main Entry: | factious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conflicting, warring |
| Synonyms: | alienated, belligerent, contending, contentious, contumacious, disaffected, disputatious, dissident, divisive, estranged, fighting, hostile, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, litigious, malcontent, mutinous, partisan, quarrelsome, rebellious, refractory, rival, sectarian, seditious, troublemaking, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent |
| Notes: | factious means addicted to forming parties and raise dissensions in opposition to government or the common good, while fractious means tending to cause trouble or unruly or irritable |
| Antonyms: | agreeing, cooperating, cooperative, peaceful, united |
| Main Entry: | heavy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult, severe |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, acroamatic, arduous, boisterous, burdensome, complex, complicated, confused, effortful, esoteric, formidable, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, intolerable, knotty, labored, laborious, onerous, oppressive, profound, recondite, rough, serious, solemn, stormy, strenuous, tedious, tempestuous, toilsome, tough, troublesome, turbulent, vexatious, violent, wearisome, weighty, wild |
| Antonyms: | easy, inconsequential, insignificant, trivial, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | hysterical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset, excited |
| Synonyms: | agitated, berserk, beside oneself, blazing, carried away, convulsive, crazed, crazy, delirious, distracted, distraught, emotional, fiery, frantic, frenzied, fuming, furious, impassioned, impetuous, in a fit, incensed, irrepressible, mad, maddened, nervous, neurotic, overwrought, panic-stricken, passionate, possessed, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, seething, spasmodic, tempestuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unnerved, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, wild, worked up |
| Antonyms: | calm, controlled, serene |
| Main Entry: | insubordinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, defiant, disaffected, disobedient, disorderly, dissentious, factious, fractious, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, naughty, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, riotous, seditious, treacherous, turbulent, uncompliant, uncomplying, undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly |
| Antonyms: | behaved, compliant, obedient |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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