Definitions for tempests

tempests tem·pest

Spelling: [tem-pist]
IPA: /ˈtɛm pɪst/

Tempests is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in tempests (eempsstt).

Definitions for tempests

noun

  1. a violent windstorm, especially one with rain, hail, or snow.
  2. a violent commotion, disturbance, or tumult.
  3. a comedy (1611) by Shakespeare.

Idioms

  1. tempest in a teacup. teacup (def 3).

verb (used with object)

  1. to affect by or as by a tempest; disturb violently.

Origin of tempests

1200-50; Middle English tempeste Old French Vulgar Latin *tempesta, for Latin tempestās season, weather, storm, equivalent to tempes- (variant stem of tempus time) + -tās -

Examples for tempests

He looked like a harbinger of tempest, a shipmate of the Flying Dutchman.

Much of the nation has been caught up in a tempest that resembled one of the dinner-table scenes in August: Osage County.

The first grey pencillings of dawn would raise a tempest which would shake two hemispheres.

When CEO Jamie Dimon first announced the loss in April, he pegged it at just $2 billion, and called it “a tempest in a teapot.”

The tempest suppressed his voice, as it had put out the fire.

Let us now turn to "The tempest," and see how our poet figures in it.

Of course, this particular fooforaw may be a tempest in a teapot: OPM may rule that they can offer subsidies to staffers.

A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

This last speech of Slipslop raised a tempest in the mind of her mistress.

tempest, hurricane, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, or Big Bang?

Word Value for tempests
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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