Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
TUMULTUOUS
disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent
(adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; “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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
tumultuous (comparative more tumultuous, superlative most tumultuous)
Characterized by loud, confused noise. [from mid 16th c.]
Synonyms: noisy, uproarious, see also noisy
Causing or characterized by tumult; chaotic, disorderly, turbulent. [from mid 16th c.]
Synonyms: riotous, tempestuous, tumultuary, see also disorderly
Antonyms
• untumultuous
• (characterized by loud, confused noise): see quiet
• (causing or characterized by tumult): see calm
Source: Wiktionary
Tu*mul"tu*ous, a. Etym: [L. tumultuosus: cf. F. tumultueux.]
1. Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. Macaulay.
2. Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
3. Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed. His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast. Milton.
4. Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.
Syn.
– Disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent; violent; agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless; riotous; seditious.
– Tu*mul"tu*ous*ly, adv.
– Tu*mul"tu*ous*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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