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Tumultuous vs Breakneck - What's the difference?

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Tumultuous is a related term of breakneck.


As adjectives the difference between tumultuous and breakneck

is that tumultuous is noisy and disorderly while breakneck is dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.

As a noun breakneck is

a fall that breaks the neck.

tumultuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Noisy and disorderly
  • Causing tumult

    • breakneck

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
    • He came running around the corner at a breakneck pace and couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the fruit stand.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fall that breaks the neck.
  • A dangerous steep place from which one could fall.