All 3 Uses of
tumult
in
The Great Gatsby
- Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene.
p. 53.5 *tumultuous = turbulent (confused and disordered)
- The prolonged and tumultuous argument that ended by herding us into that room eludes me, though I have a sharp physical memory that, in the course of it, my underwear kept climbing like a damp snake around my legs and intermittent beads of sweat raced cool across my back.
p. 126.2tumultuous = loud and disorderly
- Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead.
p. 135.7 *tumult = disorderly noise
Definitions:
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(1)
(tumult as in: couldn't hear over the tumult) loud noise -- usually created by an unrestrained crowd or some kind of confusion
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(2)
(tumult as in: tumult in financial markets) confusion or disorder -- often noisy