Usually means: Characterized by strong, turbulent emotions.
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  1. tempestuous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tempestuous: Merriam-Webster
  3. tempestuous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tempestuous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tempestuous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tempestuous: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tempestuous, tempestuous: Wordnik
  8. tempestuous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tempestuous: Wiktionary
  10. tempestuous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tempestuous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tempestuous: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tempestuous: Dictionary.com
  14. tempestuous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tempestuous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. tempestuous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. tempestuous: Rhymezone
  18. Tempestuous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tempestuous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. tempestuous: FreeDictionary.org
  21. tempestuous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. tempestuous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tempestuous: Legal dictionary

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  1. tempestuous: Encyclopedia

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  1. tempestuous: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tempest; also, of a place: frequently experiencing tempests; (very) stormy.
adjective:  (figurative) Characterized by disorderly, frenetic, or violent activity; stormy, tumultuous, turbulent; also, of a person, their behaviour or nature, etc.: characterized by bouts of bad temper or sudden changes of mood; impetuous, stormy, temperamental.

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