adjective
- Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination.
- usage: "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"
- synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent
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