stormy
adjectifattesté dans les dialogues
- États-Unis//ˈstɔɹmi//
Of or pertaining to storms.
adjectif
- 1
Of or pertaining to storms.
- 2
Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain.
a stormy season or a stormy day
It was a dark and stormy night, the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets […]
Fabio Capello insisted [Wayne] Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper - when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic - suggested otherwise.
- 3
Proceeding from violent agitation or fury.
a stormy sound or stormy shocks
- 4
Violent; passionate; rough.
stormy passions a stormy relationship
1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure She was real at ease & at peace with herself. Didn't seem to have the stormy feeling I've had lately.
This new anti-military consciousness surfaced at the Gay Academic Union Conference held last month in New York, where two broadsides and a meeting were held to discuss the situation. And in San Francisco, after a stormy meeting of Bay Area Gay Liberation (BAGEL), the group refused to co-sponsor a fund-raising event for former T/Sgt. Leonard Matlovich.
Étymologie
From Middle English stormy, stormi, from Old English *stormiġ (“stormy”), equivalent to storm + -y. Cognate with Dutch stormig (“stormy”), German stürmisch (“stormy”), Swedish stormig (“stormy”).
Formes
- comparatif
- stormier
- superlatif
- stormiest