Tempest vs Turmoil - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tempest and turmoil

is that tempest is a storm, especially one with severe winds while turmoil is a state of great disorder or uncertainty.

As verbs the difference between tempest and turmoil

is that tempest is (rare) to storm while turmoil is (obsolete|intransitive) to be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

tempest

English

Noun

(en noun)

A storm, especially one with severe winds.

* 1847 , (Herman Melville), Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas , ch. 16:

As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic.

*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.

Any violent tumult or commotion.

* 1914 , (Ambrose Bierce), "One Officer, One Man":

They awaited the word "forward"—awaited, too, with beating hearts and set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given; the tempest did not break out.

(label) A fashionable social gathering; a drum.

(Smollett)

Derived terms

* tempest in a teapot * tempestuous

Verb

(en verb)

(rare) To storm.

(transitive, chiefly, poetic) To disturb, as by a tempest.

* 1667 , , Paradise Lost , Book VII:

. . . the seal

And bended dolphins play; part huge of bulk,

Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,

Tempest the ocean.

* 1811 , , "The Drowned Lover," in Poems from St. Irvyne :

Oh! dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve,

And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air.

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turmoil

English

Noun

(en-noun)

A state of great disorder or uncertainty.

*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport

, title=]http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18181971 England 1-0 Ukraine] , passage=Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.}}

Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance.

* Shakespeare

And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil , / A blessed soul doth in Elysium.

*, chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}

Synonyms

* chaos, disorder

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

(Milton)

(obsolete) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.

* Spenser

It is her fatal misfortune to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.

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