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# stormy

«stormy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Stormy weather has strong winds, heavy rain, thunder or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (stormy, stormier, stormiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stormy weather has strong winds, heavy rain, thunder or big waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stormy/#m1)

2) Stormy can describe feelings or meetings full of anger and shouting, like a stormy argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stormy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In weather and science lessons, stormy days bring gales, thunder and lightning. Safety: in stormy weather stay indoors, keep away from trees, water and the beach, and follow warnings. In stories, «a dark and stormy night» sets a spooky scene. Phrases: «stormy weather», «stormy sea», «stormy sky».

### examples

- It was a dark and stormy night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stormy/#x1)
- The ferry didn't sail because the sea was stormy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stormy/#x2)
- Stormy weather is coming this afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stormy/#x3)
- Stay away from the beach on stormy days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stormy/#x4)
- The sky looked stormy and grey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stormy/#x5)
- They had a stormy argument about the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stormy/#x6)
- Our picnic was ruined by stormy weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stormy/#x7)
- It was a stormy night, with mist and rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stormy/#x8)

### note

Adjective: storm + -y; stormier, stormiest. Stormy weather can be dangerous: lightning can strike tall, open places. Opposite: «calm».

### In the corpora

- [Picture Mary Anning, a girl from a poor family in Lyme Regis, hunting along stormy cliffs in the early 1800s.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/57-fossils/4/)
- [Elizabeth I ruled England for 45 years, and in 1588 her navy and stormy weather defeated the Spanish Armada.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/14/)
- [I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.900/)
- [For He commanded, and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves thereof;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1979/)
- [Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind, fulfilling His word;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2675/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stormy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stormy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.