Tumult

English

Noun

Tumult (plural Tumults)

1. The noise as made by a crowd.
2. A riot or uprising.

Related terms

• tumultuous

Synonyms

• uproar
• ruckus

Adjectives for Tumult

murmuring; fast-gathering; tempestuous; growing; intestinal; formidable; sickening; ensuing; portentous; wild; rolling; surging; internal; inward; passionate; ceaseless; fiery; civic.

Verbs for Tumult

calm—; quell—; restrain—; —bewilders; — breaks loose; —ceases; —dies ; —disconcerts; —disorders; —embroils; —ensues; — muddles; —rages; —reigns; —roars; — ruffles; —subsides; —wanes; —waxes.

Thesaurus

Bedlam let loose, ado, affray, agitation, bedlam, blast, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, botheration, brawl, broil, brouhaha, burst, bustle, cacophony, chaos, charivari, chirm, churn, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, commotion, confusion, conturbation, convulsion, din, discomposure, discord, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drunken brawl, dustup, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, excitement, fanaticism, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, fussiness, hassle, hell broke loose, helter-skelter, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, inquietude, insurrection, jangle, jitters, jumpiness, loud noise, maelstrom, malaise, melee, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, noise, noise and shouting, outcry, pandemonium, passion, pell-mell, perturbation, pother, racket, rage, rampage, rattle, restlessness, rhubarb, riot, roar, roil, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, rout, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumble, rumpus, scramble, seethe, seething, shindy, shivaree, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, storminess, sweat, swirl, swirling, tempestuousness, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unquiet, unrest, upheaval, uproar, upset, upturn, vortex, whirl, wildness, yeastiness, zeal, zealousness

Etymology

From Latin tumultus (“noise, tumult”).

Pronunciation

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Translations

noise as made by a crowd

Danish: tumult (da) c., tummel (da) c. French: barouf (fr) m., baroufe (fr) m.

German: Tumult (de) m. Romanian: freamăt (ro), tumult (ro) n., tumulte (ro)

riot or uprising

Danish: oprør (da) n. French: bagarre (fr) f.

Galician: tumulto (gl) m. German: Tumult (de) m.

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Esperanto: tumulto (eo) Serbian: larma (sr) f. Swedish: tumult (sv) n.

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Danish

Noun

Tumult c. (singular definite Tumulten, plural indefinite Tumulter)

1. uproar, tumult
2. riot, disturbance
3. scuffle

Etymology

From Latin tumultus (“noise, tumult”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tumult/, [tˢuˈmulˀd̥]

Inflection

    Inflection of Tumult

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	Tumult	Tumulten	Tumulter	Tumulterne
genitive	Tumults	Tumultens	Tumulters	Tumulternes

Synonyms

• tummel

Related terms

• tumultagtig
• tumultarisk

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Romanian

Noun

Tumult n. (plural tumulturi)

1. tumult

Etymology

From Latin tumultus

Synonyms

• larmă
• zarvă
• agitație

Related terms

• tumultos, tumultuos