1. (a.) Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.

2. (a.) Disposed to insubordination and disorder; restless; unquiet; refractory; as, turbulent spirits.

3. (a.) Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting.

agitated amiss anarchic angry askew awry blaring blatant blatting blustering blusterous blustery boiling boisterous brassy brawling brazen breakaway bustling chaotic clamant clamorous clamoursome clanging clangorous clattery cloudy coarse cockeyed convulsed cyclonic deranged dirty disarranged discomfited discomposed disconcerted dislocated disordered disorderly disorganized disquieted disturbed excited extreme extremistic factious fast feverish fidgety flurried flustered fluttering fluttery foul frantic frenzied fretful furious fussing fussy haywire hellish howling in disorder infuriate insensate insurgent insurrectionary jittery jumpy loudmouthed mad mafficking mindless misplaced mutineering mutinous nervous nervy noiseful noisy obstreperous on the fritz orgasmic orgastic out of gear out of joint out of kelter out of kilter out of order out of place out of tune out of whack pandemoniac perturbed quarrelsome rackety raging rainy rambunctious raucous ravening raving rebel rebellious restless revolutional revolutionary riotous rip-roaring roaring roily roisterous rough roughhouse rowdy rowdyish ruffled rumbustious seditionary seditious shaken shaken up shuffled stirred up storming stormy strepitant strepitous subversive swirling tempestuous termagant tornadic traitorous treasonable troubled troublous tumultuous turbid typhonic typhoonish uncontrollable uneasy uninhibited unpeaceful unquiet unruly unsettled uproarious upset vociferous wild