stormfuladj.
/ˈstɔːmfʊl/ Abounding in or subject to storms; tempestuous, stormy. literal and figurative. (A favourite word with Carlyle.)
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > stormy
reigheOE
stormya1200
wilda1250
troublec1374
rougha1400
stormishc1430
rude?a1439
boistous1470
troublous1482
wair?a1500
tempestuous1509
blusterous1548
rugged1549
stormful1558
troublesome1560
turbulent1573
ruggy1577
rufflered1582
oragious?1590
boisterous?1594
broily1594
unruly1594
procellousa1629
gurly1718
coarse1774
ugly1844
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Æneid (1562) viii. sig. Bb.iij Store of strugling wynds & stormful clouds of cloddid raine.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 172 From ieopardie Of stormfull Seas.
a1759 W. Collins in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. (1788) 1 ii. 69 They know what spirit brews the stormful day.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. xi. 352 This Camp of Twenty Thousand, could it be other than of stormfullest Sansculottes?
1883 J. Payn Kit xxxii To shape his thoughts in less vehement and stormful fashion.
Derivatives
ˈstormfully adv.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adverb] > stormily
stormilyc1450
stormfully1834
strepitantly1913
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. viii. 96/1 We..haste stormfully across the astonished Earth.
1904 M. Maclean Lit. Celts xviii. 350 A hundred and sixty years pass stormfully by.
ˈstormfulness n.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > storminess
troublenessc1380
anger1566
storminess1587
tempestuousness1648
troublesomeness1648
stormfulness1834
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iii, in Fraser's Mag. Feb. 185/2 With a Stormfulness (Ungestüm) under which the boldest quailed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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