different between tumultuous vs uproar

English

Etymology

From Old French tumultuous (modern French tumultueux), from Latin tumultu?sus (“restless, turbulent”), from tumultus (“disturbance, uproar, violent commotion, tumult; agitation, disturbance, excitement”) + -?sus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tj??m?l.tj?.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tu?m?l.t?u.?s/, /t?-/
• Hyphenation: tu?mult?u?ous

Adjective

tumultuous (comparative more tumultuous, superlative most tumultuous)

1. Characterized by loud, confused noise. [from mid 16th c.]

   Synonyms: noisy, uproarious, see also Thesaurus:noisy
2. Causing or characterized by tumult; chaotic, disorderly, turbulent. [from mid 16th c.]

   Synonyms: riotous, tempestuous, tumultuary, see also Thesaurus:disorderly

Antonyms

• untumultuous
• (characterized by loud, confused noise): see Thesaurus:quiet
• (causing or characterized by tumult): see Thesaurus:calm

Derived terms

• tumultuously
• tumultuousness
• untumultuous

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Further reading

• tumultuous (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr. Possibly influenced by roar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p????/

Noun

uproar (countable and uncountable, plural uproars)

1. Tumultuous, noisy excitement. [from 1520s]
2. Loud confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
3. A loud protest, controversy, outrage

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:commotion

Derived terms

• uproarious
• uproarish

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Verb

uproar (third-person singular simple present uproars, present participle uproaring, simple past and past participle uproared)

1. (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     […] had I power, I should

     Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,

     Uproar the universal peace, confound

     All unity on earth.

2. (intransitive) To make an uproar.
   • 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,^[2]

     […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]

   • 1824, Thomas Carlyle (translator), Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, New York: A.L. Burt, 1839, Book 4, Chapter 8, pp. 210-211,^[3]

     […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.

   • 1828, Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity, London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, p. 56,^[4]

     When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar,

     And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,

   • 1829, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of General Francis Marion, Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, Chapter 12, p. 106,^[5]

     Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.

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