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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stormy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stormy sea
▪ a picture of a battleship in a stormy sea
a stormy/turbulent relationship (=one that involves many arguments)
▪ It had been a stormy relationship and there were frequent drunken rows.
windy/stormy
▪ In windy weather, water from the fountain is blown onto the paths.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
night
▪ It was a wild, stormy night.
▪ It was like falling asleep after a stormy night at sea.
▪ It was a very stormy night, with a lot of wind and rain.
▪ Step into the wheelhouse and take the helm on a dark and stormy night!
▪ One dark, stormy night I visited the dying woman.
▪ On stormy nights it had been exhilarating to fly in the teeth of the wind.
relationship
▪ Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago, he realised how much she had mellowed.
▪ But Clinton and Morris had had a stormy relationship.
sea
▪ It was about then I felt as if I were on a small boat on stormy seas.
▪ He was ready to take on the salt air and the stormy sea.
▪ On the seas and far away On stormy seas and far away.
▪ Your kneecaps are my anchor in the stormy sea of life.
▪ They rose unchallenged, like black rocks in a stormy sea.
▪ Finally, wherever health-care reform may be on the stormy seas of the Clinton presidency, the public wants health-care reform.
weather
▪ It would also be easy to take down and stow in stormy weather.
▪ It blamed lower holiday sales, crimped gross margin, stormy weather and higher costs.
▪ Unfortunately, my parents' marriage slowly hit stormy weather and they split up.
▪ Instead he ran into stormy weather.
▪ It is frequently seen in stormy weather off the Cape of Good Hope and considered an omen of ill fortune.
▪ That's where we're going: to New York and its stormy weather.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a stormy meeting
▪ a stormy winter night
▪ After a long and sometimes stormy discussion, a decision was finally reached.
▪ The December peace talks are likely to be stormy.
▪ Their relationship could be stormy at times.
▪ Their relationship has been often stormy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A wild, stormy wind was blowing, and in the garden I passed the wreck of the great tree.
▪ He was ready to take on the salt air and the stormy sea.
▪ Instead he ran into stormy weather.
▪ This stormy summer threw down and scattered grain, held berries back from ripening.
▪ Unfortunately, my parents' marriage slowly hit stormy weather and they split up.
▪ We walked the town walls, whilst Jessie Young told us breathtaking stories of battered Berwick's stormy history.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stormy

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stormy

early 14c., from late Old English storemig (12c.), from storm (n.) + -y (2). Figurative use by mid-14c. Related: Storminess.\n

Wiktionary
stormy

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
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]

Wikipedia
Stormy

Stormy may refer to:

Stormy (album)

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 (mascot)

Stormy is the cyclonic costumed mascot for Lake Erie College.

Stormy (song)

"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 (film)

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.