Crossword clues for stormy
stormy
- Tempestuous romance about maiden
- Raining cats and dogs
- Far from calm
- Not fair at all
- Hardly harmonious
- Opposite of serene
- Like many Turner seascapes
- Hailing, say
- Dark 'n' __ (rum and ginger beer cocktail)
- "Call It ___ Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)"
- "____ Weather"
- Morsel, pretty poor for an oceanic bird
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.''
--Milton.Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.
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Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions.
Stormy chiefs of a desert but extensive domain.
--Sir W. Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from late Old English storemig (12c.), from storm (n.) + -y (2). Figurative use by mid-14c. Related: Storminess.\n
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to storms. 2 Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain. 3 Proceeding from violent agitation or fury. 4 Violent; passionate; rough.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Stormy may refer to:
Stormy is an album by American country music singer and songwriter Hank Williams, Jr. It was released on August 31, 1999 on the Curb Records label.
Stormy is the cyclonic costumed mascot for Lake Erie College.
"Stormy" is a hit song by the Classics IV released on their LP Mamas and Papas/Soul Train in 1968. It entered Billboard Magazine October 26, 1968 peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This single release along with the prior release of " Spooky", and soon after the release of " Traces", made great success for the band, apart of the well known songs from the ensemble. The song was covered in 1978 by Santana on the album Inner Secrets.
John Legend, heavily samples the song in his single, " Save Room".
Stormy is a 1935 American drama film directed by Lew Landers and written by Ben Grauman Kohn and George H. Plympton. The film stars Noah Beery, Jr., Jean Rogers, J. Farrell MacDonald, Raymond Hatton, Walter Miller and Fred Kohler. The film was released on October 22, 1935, by Universal Pictures.
Usage examples of "stormy".
After fourteen stormy years the two friends, who more than any others were responsible for the launching of the Third Retch, for its terror and its degradation, who though they had often disagreed had stood together in the moments of crisis and defeats and disappointments, had come to a parting of the ways, and the scar-faced, brawling battler for Hitler and Nazism had come to the end of his violent life.
A stormy scene resulted which left the old housekeeper spent and Beryl blazing with indignation.
They were soon engaged in a stormy exchange which had ended abruptly when he slammed down his brawny fist and dared her to speak further.
It was necessary to employ relay satellites, but for a week now Saturn had interfered, drowning out with the tail of its stormy magnetosphere all emissions except lasers.
Ten thousand men came rushing down to the stormy shore carrying bolts of drape material, cages full of parakeets, tomato- and tangerine-colored sport coats, and lime-colored shoes.
Then, feeling resolute, she picked up her bags and headed for the unconvincing Santal the strange pink taxicab and the dark and stormy night.
The cold, pounding wrath of stormy seawater was in Its voiceless communication, and the dark purple danger of the stiller depths, the outrage of an ancient surging elemental force now prostituted by men.
Swept cold against our faces, where we sat Between the hush and howling of the winds, Between the swells and sinking of the waves, Between the stormy sea and stilly shore, Between the rushings of the maddened rains, Between the dark beneath and dark above.
The ceaseless flow of the brawling stream, the wide-spread forest, the changes of the sky, the career of the wide-winged clouds, when the winds drove them athwart the atmosphere, or the repose of the still, and stirless summer air, the stormy war of the elements, and the sense of trust and security amidst their loudest disturbances, were all circumstances to mould her even unconsciously to an admiration of all that is grand and beautiful.
Stormy had positioned himself at the prow, his ever-present crossbow strapped to his back.
The stormy sunset flamed up, tinting the fields with momentary red, and their hollow voices sounded among the trees.
There is an exaggeration in your sorrow These liars in surplice, in black cassock, or in purple Time, the irresistible healer Trust not in kings Violent passion had changed to mere friendship Weeping just as if princes had not got to die like anybody else Went so far as to shed tears, his most difficult feat of all What they need is abstinence, prohibitions, thwartings When women rule their reign is always stormy and troublous When one has seen him, everything is excusable When one has been pretty, one imagines that one is still so Wife: property or of furniture, useful to his house Wish you had the generosity to show, now and again, less wit Women who misconduct themselves are pitiless and severe Won for himself a great name and great wealth by words Would you like to be a cardinal?
They ran into the trees, past the glade of the great waringin and on, through the earth and leaf-scented darkness and the stirred, stormy air.
Up on Wattel Bek she had lived an outdoor life where the climate was changeable and often stormy.
The hut was situated half way up the Alm, reckoning from Dorfli, and it was well that it was provided with some shelter, for it was so broken-down and dilapidated that even then it must have been very unsafe as a habitation, for when the stormy south wind came sweeping over the mountain, everything inside it, doors and windows, shook and rattled, and all the rotten old beams creaked and trembled.