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Stormier

Stormy \Storm"y\, a. [Compar. Stormier; superl. Stormiest.]

  1. 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.''
    --Milton.

  2. Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.

  3. Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.

    Stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain.
    --Sir W. Scott.

Wiktionary
stormier

a. (en-comparative of: stormy)

WordNet
stormy
  1. adj. (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas" [ant: calm]

  2. characterized by violent emotions or behavior; "a stormy argument"; "a stormy marriage"

  3. [also: stormiest, stormier]

stormier

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Usage examples of "stormier".

Had he not been bred among the prejudices of birth, or had he lived in stormier times, he might have been the foremost champion of freedom.

It would hardly be possible for a human being to pass a stormier night than was that night of his.

He did gather that within the famed triangle there had been fights, reconciliations, at least one contracted marriage, more fights, stormy departures and even stormier returns.

The personal relationship between Diefenbaker and Kennedy was probably stormier than any previous dealings between the two leaders responsible for the nations that share the North American continent.

But the settled, the unruffled, the unruffleable peacefulness and trustfulness of his soul seemed to Charlton, whose life had been stormier within than without, nothing less than sublime.

Hudson, and stilled even the stormier waves of the East River, as the inhabitants of New-York designate that portion of the Harbor which lies between their city and Brooklyn.