Adjective: turbulent
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more turbulent |
| Superlative | most turbulent |
Sample Sentences
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It is dangerous to sail in turbulent seas.
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The mid-19th century was a turbulent time in American history.
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The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position. [2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:]
Adjectives inflected like turbulent
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English turbulent, from Middle French turbulent, from Latin turbulentus, from turba (“disorder, tumult, crowd”). See: Latin Adjectives '
turbulentus'.
Verbs referencing "turbulent"
Finnish Adjectives
turbulentti, Polish Adjectives
turbulentny.