what does tumultuous mean?

Question

can i write that in the sentence:

thus began her tumultuous and turbulant afternoon.

this is meant to be a very upbeat story!

Answer 1

Tumultuous and turbulent mean the same thing, so it would be redundant to use both of them. When I think of turbulence, I think of a rough flight on an airplane. It has a negative connotation, so I wouldn't use it to set an upbeat mood in a story.

Answer 2

i like what you have written..."thus began her tumultuous and turbulent afternoon." however, take that sentence and turn the story around to be comical, as in the day starts off with chaos and stress and she finds herself sitting in a mud puddle after chasing her cat down broadway and found that she had no choice but to burst into wild, hysterical laughter...why would she waste this day?

Answer 3

i would use the word tumultuous as in a tumultuous affair!
hot and heated.

In a sentence, use one of your big words, like thus began her hot and turbulant afternoon.

Later that day she had a lurid affair.
Tumulutuous affair.

Answer 4

Tumultuous means noisy and disorderly.