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# turbulent

«turbulent» in Mova's school dictionary: **wild, rough and disorderly, with a lot of movement** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more turbulent, most turbulent)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Turbulent means wild, rough and disorderly, with a lot of movement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbulent/#m1)

2) Turbulent water is rough and tossed by strong waves or currents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbulent/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

rough seas in stories or a stormy crowd; in lessons it describes unsettled times or water; a turbulent sea tosses boats about

### examples

- The turbulent sea tossed the little boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbulent/#x1)
- He sailed on vaster and more turbulent waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbulent/#x2)
- The class became turbulent when the teacher left the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turbulent/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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