tempest Definition
tem·pest (tem′pist)
noun
- a violent storm with high winds, esp. one accompanied by rain, hail, or snow
- a violent outburst; tumult
Etymology: ME < OFr tempeste < VL *tempesta, for L tempestas, portion of time, weather, a calamity, storm, tempest < tempus, time: see temper
transitive verb
Old Poet. to agitate violently
tempest Idioms
tempest in a teapot
☆a great commotion over a small problem
tempest Synonyms
tempest
n.
tempest Usage Examples
Converse of object
- rage: Bethany wrote... " I wish my smiles could still the raging tempest of the Saturday shoppers.
- still: He speaks, and things have being; he casts out devils, stills the tempest, and raises the dead.
- raise: Anything like what musicians call a fugue would have raised a tempest.
- quell: How Germanus the Bishop, sailing into Britain with Lupus, first quelled the tempest of the CHAP.
- whirl: Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
- brave: Seeds of Revolution Scottish botanists braved tempests and conflicts to discover new flowers and fauna.
Preposition: at
sea: I then hope to create a fantastic, seamless transition taking the audience from the tempest at sea to Prospero on his island.
Converse of subject
overtake: What a terrible situation for our travelers, to be thus overtaken by a tempest in a frail bark which they could not manage!
Adjective modifier
- furious: It was a remarkable fact that, although in the very midst of the furious tempest, they did not suffer from it.
- mighty: So that very night he conjured up a mighty tempest.
- terrible: Before he breathed his last a terrible tempest arose.
- violent: Monday 25 June will long be remembered at Bream for the violent tempest which visited us in the afternoon.
- dreadful: His wish was gratified, in the dreadful tempest of Nov. 27th.
Modifies a noun
group: Walker AE, Johnston M, Grimshaw JM, Abraham SCS, Campbell MK and the TEMPEST group.
Noun used with modifier
vane: Vane tempest, which was playing house, therefore became more of a chill out room.
Preposition: in
- teapot: It's not specific to self-archiving, and a tempest in a teapot as far as that is concerned.
- day: Who sent the stormy wind and tempest in the days of Jonah ( Jonah 1:4 )?
Preposition: of
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