Turbulent Definition

tûrbyə-lənt
adjective
Moving rapidly or violently.
Turbulent rapids.
American Heritage
Full of commotion or wild disorder.
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Origin of Turbulent

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin turbulentus from turba turmoil turbid

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin turbulentus, from turba (“disorder, tumult").

    From Wiktionary

Turbulent Sentence Examples

  • The citizens, however, retained their turbulent spirit.

  • He displayed great energy in facing the difficulties of a turbulent situation, but was unsuccessful.

  • But it is a turbulent crowd, your excellency--I hardly managed to get away from it.

  • In the Guarani language "Charrua" means turbulent, and by their enemies the Charruas were accounted as such, and even ferocious, although admitted to be generous to their captives.

  • All political authority was in the hands of turbulent nobles who quarrelled among themselves, who were always inclined to submit the questions at issue to the arbitrament of arms, and who did not scruple to invite foreign powers to intervene on their behalf.

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