turbulently

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adverb

In a turbulent manner.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adverbturbulently (comparative more turbulently, superlative most turbulently)

comparative more turbulently · superlative most turbulently

  1. In a turbulent manner.

    The shiny, very dark, and turbulently ornate woodwork […]

    1988, Edmund White, chapter 4, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994
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    And she had turbulently admitted to his wringing questions that her visit to Middleton had been undertaken less because of the invalid relative than in shamefaced fear of her own weakness if she remained near his home.

    1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 29”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

    The Hoptons, the greengrocer’s family over the way, were “rough” she thought; they were really turbulently jolly […]

    1934, H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, Chapter I, section 4

    The 2,600-mile Mekong, the world's eleventh longest river and one of the least used, rises in the Himalayan plateau of China near Tibet, plunges turbulently through the mountain gorges of Yunnan, and emerges to divide and water the Indo-Chinese peninsula.

    1969 December 26, “The Muddied Mekong”, in Time

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbin a stormy or violent manner

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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Chicago

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