Word Meanings - STORMFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Abounding with storms. "The stormful east." Carlyle. -- Storm"ful*ness, n.
Related words: (words related to STORMFUL)
- STORMING
from Storm, v. Storming party , a party assigned to the duty of making the first assault in storming a fortress. - STORM
A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like. Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging, - STORMGLASS
A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather. - ABOUND
1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed - STORMINESS
The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness. - STORMILY
In a stormy manner. - STORM-BEAT
Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser. - STORMWIND
A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm. Longfellow. - STORMFINCH
The storm petrel. - STORMLESS
Without storms. Tennyson. - STORMCOCK
The missel thrush. The fieldfare. The green woodpecker. - STORMY
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; - STORMFUL
Abounding with storms. "The stormful east." Carlyle. -- Storm"ful*ness, n. - OVERABOUND
To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope. - WINDSTORM
A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain. - THUNDERSTORM
A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder. - SUPERABOUND
To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn. - HAILSTORM
A storm accompanied with hail; a shower of hail. - OUTSTORM
To exceed in storming. Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies. J. Barlow. - SEABOUND
Bounded by the sea. - SNOWSTORM
A storm with falling snow. - LANDSTORM
See VARNPLIGTIGE