roiling
Agitated and turbulent
Roiling describes turbulent, agitated movement—water churning, clouds swirling, a crowd seething.
The word often appears figuratively for emotional or social turmoil: roiling anger, a nation roiling with unrest.
Roiling suggests something just below the surface threatening to erupt.
The verb roil means to stir up or disturb: The scandal roiled the markets.
Agitated circular motion
- swirlingTurning in curves
- whirlpoolRotating water formation
- eddyingRotating in currents
- vortexRotating fluid column
maelstrom · rapids · whitecaps · surging · billowing · thrashing · heaving · sloshing
Cooking below boiling point
- bubblingForming gas spheres
- seethingIntensely, quietly enraged
- steamingReleasing hot vapor
- scaldingExtremely hot, burning
churning · frothing · percolating · brewing · steeping · stewing · poaching · blanching
Troubled by uncertainty
- disquietedMade anxious or uneasy
- uneasyTroubled, not calm
- perturbedMildly distressed, uneasy
- restlessUnable to be still
troubled · disturbed · churning · queasy · knotted · nervous · agitated · tumultuous
Intensely, quietly enraged
- agitatedEmotionally disturbed, restless
- turbulentViolently agitated or disturbed
- unsettledNot yet resolved
- ferventIntensely and sincerely felt
vehement · fiery · passionate · fierce · incensed · inflamed · feverish · volatile
Violently agitated or disturbed
- disorderedLacking systematic arrangement
- frenziedWildly out of control
- upheavalViolent disturbance of order
- commotionNoisy, confused disturbance
turmoil · pandemonium · bedlam · ferment · unrest · agitation · disruption · instability
churning
Agitated circular motion
vortex · maelstrom · rapids · whitecaps · surging · billowing · thrashing · heaving · sloshing · tossing
simmering
Cooking below boiling point
scalding · churning · frothing · percolating · brewing · steeping · stewing · poaching · blanching · roasting
anxious
Troubled by uncertainty
- disquietedMade anxious or uneasy
- uneasyTroubled, not calm
- perturbedMildly distressed, uneasy
restless · troubled · disturbed · churning · queasy · knotted · nervous · agitated · tumultuous · conflicted
seething
Intensely, quietly enraged
- agitatedEmotionally disturbed, restless
- turbulentViolently agitated or disturbed
- unsettledNot yet resolved
fervent · vehement · fiery · passionate · fierce · incensed · inflamed · feverish · volatile · explosive
tumultuous
Violently agitated or disturbed
- disorderedLacking systematic arrangement
- frenziedWildly out of control
- upheavalViolent disturbance of order
commotion · turmoil · pandemonium · bedlam · ferment · unrest · agitation · disruption · instability · volatility
tempest
Violent windstorm or turmoil
- squallBrief, violent windstorm
- galeSevere sustained wind
- thunderstormViolent weather with lightning
monsoon · typhoon · hurricane · cyclone · torrent · deluge · downpour · cloudburst · maelstrom · whirlwind
- swirlingwhirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, swirl, twirl
- volcano wordsactive, dormant, extinct, molten, eruptive
- erratic motionthrashing, flailing, jerking, lurching, twitching
- wave termswave height, wavelength, crest, trough, swell
- fluid dynamicsfluid mechanics, fluid flow, turbulence, fluid motion, streamlines
roilingstill
Unmoving, or continuing
calm · placid · tranquil · motionless · unagitated