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stormiest
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas" [ant: calm ] characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage" [also: stormiest , stormier ]
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a. (en-superlative of: stormy)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stormy \Storm"y\, a. [Compar. Stormier ; superl. Stormiest .] Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week. ``Beyond the stormy Hebrides.'' ...
Usage examples of stormiest.
When the curtain at last fell, he burst into the stormiest applause, and kept it up--as did the whole house--until the afflictive tenor had come three times before the curtain to make his bow.
Thus it may truly be said of him not only that under his guidance the republic was saved from disruption and the country was purified of the blot of slavery, but that, during the stormiest and most perilous crisis in our history, he so conducted the government and so wielded his almost dictatorial power as to leave essentially intact our free institutions in all things that concern the rights and liberties of the citizens.
The result is that the gulf is completely sheltered on all sides, and I believe that even in the stormiest weather, the sea here must be as calm as a lake.
Despite the night I passed--a night which I will leave you to imagine--I rose the next morning with a burning interest to learn from you what had passed after my flight, and with a power, peculiar to the stormiest passions, of an outward composure while I listened to the recital.
His face was darkened with the stormiest passions, and his gaze was fixed upon the Frenchwoman, who was standing with a look half-guilty, half-imploring, at a little distance.
Here on the stormiest autumn Monday there would be no wild leaves to brush on any face, no bees in the gusty wind.
As a result, instead of carrying out the purpose for which he had been sent to Newfoundland, and studying its mineral resources, he now found himself forced into flight for having defied the authorities of the island, embarked upon a doubtful trading venture into one of the wildest and least known portions of the continent, and, with but a slight knowledge of seamanship, engaged in navigating a small sailing vessel across one of its stormiest seas.
It was a by-word in the school that his favorites had the stormiest lessons.
Was it merely a sheltered garden, where one could walk in comfort even in the stormiest weather?
But they found also that it was no peaceful ocean into which they had entered, but the stormiest they had ever encountered.
Perhaps a revolution, that once unlocks the fountains of blood in central Germany, will be the bloodiest of all revolutions: whereas, in our own chapters of revolution even the stormiest, those of the Marian Persecution and of the Parliamentary War, both alike moved under restraints of law and legislative policy.
He did that every evening, smelling weather in scents of air and earth blowing across from the mainland, listening for unfamiliar noises among the sheep, for warnings in the distant barkings of farm dogs, listening for the tide, which he only heard on the stillest or the stormiest of nights.
Ogre was clearly in his stormiest mood, Caspar dared not do anything but sit quietly over a map of South America, trying to decide on a geography project.
The 1992-3 session was the longest and one of the stormiest in my twenty years as an MP and there was little prospect of the new session being any better.
It was too far above the line which the waves reached, even in the stormiest weather.