The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tumultuous \Tu*mul"tu*ous\, a. [L. tumultuosus: cf. F. tumultueux.]
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Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.
The flight became wild and tumultuous.
--Macaulay. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
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Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.
His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast.
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Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.
Syn: Disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent; violent; agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless; riotous; seditious. [1913 Webster] -- Tu*mul"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tu*mul"tu*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a tumultuous manner.
WordNet
adv. in a tumultuous and riotous manner; "the crowd was demonstrating tumultuously" [syn: riotously]
Usage examples of "tumultuously".
The circus resounded with their indignant clamors, and they tumultuously besieged the gates of the palace, reproaching the pusillanimity of their indolent sovereign, and celebrating the heroic spirit of Constantine.
Beyond, out of gullies and flats that had been hidden from us, but not from the quickening sun, over reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view, hurrying tumultuously to take advantage of the brief day in which it must flower and fruit and seed again and die.
But the day that had begun with Sida brushing her hair, and had continued so tumultuously, had taken an insurmountable toll.
And now those raging billows came Where that fair Lady sate, and she Was borne towards the showering flame By the wild waves heaped tumultuously.
The guards on that side of the Stockade ran down in a panic, and the ten thousand prisoners immediately around us, expecting no less than that the next instant we would be swept with grape and canister, stampeded tumultuously.
The usual scenes accompanying the departure of first squads were being acted tumultuously.
The circus resounded with their indignant clamors, and they tumultuously besieged the gates of the palace, reproaching the pusillanimity of their indolent sovereign, and celebrating the heroic spirit of Constantine.
The monks and populace of Callinicum, ^* an obscure town on the frontier of Persia, excited by their own fanaticism, and by that of their bishop, had tumultuously burnt a conventicle of the Valentinians, and a synagogue of the Jews.