turmoil

1. 1.

   a violent disturbance

   “the convulsions of the stock market”

   Synonymsconvulsionupheaval

   Broaderdisturbance
2. 2.

   violent agitation

   Synonymstumult

   Broaderagitation
3. 3.

   disturbance usually in protest

   Synonymsagitationexcitementupheavalhullabaloo

   Broaderdisturbance

Other forms of turmoil

plural

turmoils·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about turmoil

What does turmoil mean?

turmoil means "a violent disturbance". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in turmoil?

turmoil has 2 syllables: tur-moil. The stress falls on "tur". In IPA it is /ˈtɝˌmɔɪl/.

What is another word for turmoil?

Close synonyms include convulsion, upheaval, tumult, agitation, excitement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is turmoil a common word?

turmoil is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.