turbulent
About 5.24 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
It is dangerous to sail in turbulent seas.
- adjective Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.
The mid-19th century was a turbulent time in American history.
Similar words
tumultuous riotous agitated troubled disruptive unquiet roiling roily churning roiled
Often followed by
flow and boundary times flows years mixing diffusion period
Word family
turbulently
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