Adjective turbulent has 2 senses
- disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent - 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"
Antonym: quiet (indirect, via unquiet)
- churning, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent - (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids"
Antonym: unagitated (indirect, via agitated)
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