violent storm

Questions about violent storm

What does violent storm mean?

violent storm means "a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning".

What is another word for violent storm?

Close synonyms include storm. 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 violent storm a common word?

violent storm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.