Tumult vs Hullabaloo - What's the difference?
tumult | hullabaloo | Related terms |
Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
* Alexander Pope
Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.
A riot or uprising.
(obsolete) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
An uproar or fuss.
* 1902 —
Tumult is a related term of hullabaloo.
As nouns the difference between tumult and hullabaloo
is that tumult is tumult, ruckus, row while hullabaloo is an uproar or fuss.tumult
English
Noun
(en noun)- Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.
- the tumult of the elements
- the tumult of the spirits or passions
Synonyms
* uproar * ruckusVerb
(en verb)- Importuning and tumulting even to the fear of a revolt. — Milton.
hullabaloo
English
Noun
(en noun)- They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.
- Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo–meat, which couldn’t have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn’t, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo , thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.