Thesaurus:commotion
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: an agitated disturbance or a hubbub edit
Synonyms edit
- ado
- argy-bargy (UK)
- bangarang
- bobbery (dated)
- brouhaha
- bunfight
- bustle
- bust-up
- chaos
- clamour
- clatter [⇒ thesaurus]
- commotion
- disruption
- disturbance
- flap
- foofaraw
- fracas
- furor
- fuss
- hobbleshaw (obsolete)
- hoo-ha, hoo-hah
- hubbub
- hullabaloo
- hurly-burly
- kerfuffle
- mayhem
- merry hell
- outcry
- palaver
- pandemonium
- pother
- quarrel
- riot [⇒ thesaurus]
- rowdydow (archaic)
- ruckus
- rumpus
- shemozzle
- shindy (slang)
- splatterdash
- stir
- stooshie (Scotland)
- three-ring circus
- to-do
- tomfoolery
- trouble
- tumult
- turmoil
- uproar
- upstir
Meronyms edit
Various edit
See also edit
- Thesaurus:disorder - a disturbance of civic peace or of public order
- Thesaurus:fight
Further reading edit
- “713. discord” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “315. agitation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “commotion” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.