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