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tumultuously

adverb

tumultuously is an adverb meaning “In a tumultuous manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-U-M-U-L-T-U-O-U-S-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does tumultuously mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a tumultuous manner.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of tumultuously

  • more tumultuously comparative
  • most tumultuously superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is tumultuously?

Tumultuously appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Tumultuously in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in a tumultuous manner:

LanguageWords
Portuguesetumultuosamente
Spanishtumultuosamente

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does tumultuously come from?

From tumultuous + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).