paroxysmal

• aggressive
• agitated
• antagonistic
• assertive
• bang-bang
• barbarous
• bellicose
• belligerent
• blood-and-guts
• bouncy
• brutal
• bumpy
• cataclysmal
• cataclysmic
• combative
• combustible
• contentious
• convulsive
• cyclonic
• destructive
• explosive
• ferocious
• fierce
• fitful
• frantic
• frenzied
• furious
• gladiatorial
• hammer-and-tongs
• hostile
• hot
• jarring
• jolting
• knock-down-and-drag-out
• lurching
• mad
• pugnacious
• quarrelsome
• rabid
• rough
• ruinous
• savage
• shaking
• shaky
• spasmodic
• stormy
• tempestuous
• tremulous
• truculent
• tumultuous
• turbulent
• twitching
• twitchy
• uncontrollable
• vicious
• violent
• volatile
• volcanic

• calm
• fluid
• halcyon
• nonbelligerent
• nonviolent
• pacific
• peaceable
• peaceful
• serene
• smooth
• tranquil
• unaggressive

• The patient suffered from paroxysmal episodes of intense pain.
• His paroxysmal coughing kept him awake all night.
• The doctor diagnosed her with a paroxysmal heart condition.
• He experienced paroxysmal bursts of laughter during the meeting.
• The disease is characterized by paroxysmal muscle spasms.

bang-bang

• aggressive
• agitated
• antagonistic
• assertive
• barbarous
• bellicose
• belligerent
• blood-and-guts
• brutal
• cataclysmal
• cataclysmic
• combative
• combustible
• contentious
• convulsive
• cyclonic
• destructive
• explosive
• ferocious
• fierce
• frantic
• frenzied
• furious
• gladiatorial
• hammer-and-tongs
• hostile
• hot
• knock-down-and-drag-out
• mad
• paroxysmal
• pugnacious
• quarrelsome
• rabid
• rough
• ruinous
• savage
• stormy
• tempestuous
• truculent
• tumultuous
• turbulent
• vicious
• violent
• volatile
• volcanic

hammer and tongs

• actively
• aggressive
• aggressively
• agitated
• animatedly
• antagonistic
• assertive
• assertively
• bang-bang
• barbarous
• bec et ongles
• bellicose
• belligerent
• blood-and-guts
• briskly
• brutal
• cataclysmal
• cataclysmic
• combative
• combustible
• contentious
• convulsive
• crisply
• cyclonic
• decidedly
• destructive
• determinedly
• directly
• dynamically
• eagerly
• emphatically
• energetically
• explosive
• explosively
• fast
• ferocious
• fierce
• fiercely
• firmly
• fixedly
• forcefully
• forcibly
• frantic
• frenzied
• furious
• gamely
• gladiatorial
• hard
• heartily
• hostile
• hot
• intensively
• intently
• knock-down-and-drag-out
• lustily
• mad
• manfully
• mightily
• muscularly
• paroxysmal
• potently
• powerfully
• pugnacious
• purposefully
• quarrelsome
• rabid
• resolutely
• rigidly
• robustly
• rough
• roughshod
• roundly
• ruinous
• savage
• sharply
• smartly
• snappily
• solidly
• soundly
• spiritedly
• spunkily
• squarely
• steadfastly
• steadily
• stiffly
• stormy
• stoutly
• strenuously
• strongly
• sturdily
• surely
• tempestuous
• truculent
• tumultuous
• turbulent
• vehemently
• vicious
• vigorously
• violent
• violently
• vivaciously
• volatile
• volcanic
• with every available resource

jerky

• absurd
• airheaded
• asinine
• balmy
• birdbrained
• boobish
• bouncy
• brain-dead
• brainless
• bubbleheaded
• buffoonish
• bumpy
• choppy
• chowderheaded
• chuckleheaded
• clownish
• clueless
• cockeyed
• convulsive
• crackpot
• crazy
• cuckoo
• daffy
• daft
• dense
• dim
• dim-witted
• dippy
• doltish
• dopey
• dopy
• dorky
• dotty
• dull
• dumb
• dunderheaded
• empty-headed
• erratic
• fallacious
• farcical
• fatuous
• featherheaded
• feebleminded
• fitful
• fool
• foolish
• gormless
• half-baked
• half-witted
• harebrained
• herky-jerky
• idiotic
• idiotical
• ill-advised
• illogical
• imbecile
• imbecilic
• inept
• insane
• invalid
• irrational
• irregular
• jagged
• jarring
• jolting
• jouncy
• knuckleheaded
• kookie
• kooky
• lamebrain
• lamebrained
• laughable
• looney
• loony
• ludicrous
• lunatic
• lunkheaded
• lurching
• mad
• mindless
• moronic
• nonrational
• nonsensical
• notional
• nutty
• oafish
• obtuse
• opaque
• out to lunch
• paroxysmal
• pinheaded
• preposterous
• ragged
• ridiculous
• rough
• sappy
• screwball
• senseless
• shaking
• shaky
• silly
• simple
• simpleminded
• slow
• slow-witted
• soft
• softheaded
• spasmodic
• spastic
• stupid
• surd
• thick
• thickheaded
• thoughtless
• tomfool
• tremulous
• twitching
• twitchy
• unconsidered
• uncontrollable
• uneven
• unintelligent
• unreasonable
• unreasoned
• unreasoning
• unsound
• unsteady
• unwise
• vacuous
• wacky
• weak
• weak-minded
• whacky
• witless
• zany

jolting

• affrighting
• agitating
• alarming
• alaruming
• amazing
• appalling
• astonishing
• astounding
• awesome
• awful
• awing
• beating
• befuddling
• bewildering
• blast
• blindsiding
• blow
• bounce
• bouncy
• bowling over
• breathtaking
• bucketing
• bucking
• buffeting
• bump
• bumping
• bumpy
• chattering
• chilling
• clash
• clout
• collision
• confounding
• confusing
• conspicuous
• convulsing
• convulsive
• crack
• crash
• crushing
• daunting
• demoralizing
• discomfiting
• discomforting
• discomposing
• disconcerting
• disgusting
• dismaying
• dispiriting
• displeasing
• disquieting
• distressing
• disturbing
• doddering
• dragging
• dumbfounding
• dumfounding
• emasculating
• extraordinary
• eye-opening
• fabulous
• fitful
• flabbergasting
• flickering
• flooring
• fluctuating
• flustering
• fluttering
• frightening
• frighting
• grabbing
• heart-stopping
• hit
• hitching
• hoicking
• horrifying
• impact
• impressive
• incomprehensible
• inconceivable
• incredible
• injury
• jar
• jarring
• jaw-dropping
• jerking
• jigging
• jiggling
• jogging
• joggling
• jolt
• jounce
• jouncing
• juddering
• knocking for a loop
• lugging
• lurching
• marvellous
• marvelous
• miraculous
• muddling
• nauseating
• nonplusing
• nonplussing
• notable
• noticeable
• offending
• oscillating
• outraging
• outstanding
• overpowering
• overwhelming
• palpitating
• panicking
• paroxysmal
• perplexing
• perturbing
• phenomenal
• pit-a-patting
• pitching
• pitter-pattering
• plucking
• portentous
• pounding
• prodigious
• pulling
• pulsating
• pulsing
• punch
• quaking
• quavering
• quivering
• rare
• remarkable
• repelling
• revolting
• ripping
• rocking
• rough
• scandalizing
• scarifying
• scaring
• sensational
• shaking
• shaking up
• shaky
• shivering
• shock
• shocking
• shuddering
• sickening
• singular
• snatching
• spasmodic
• spectacular
• spooking
• staggering
• startling
• striking
• stunning
• stupefying
• stupendous
• sublime
• surprising
• swaying
• swinging
• tearing
• terrifying
• terrorizing
• thrilling
• throbbing
• trauma
• trembling
• tremulous
• tugging
• turning off
• tweaking
• twitching
• twitchy
• unannounced
• unanticipated
• unbelievable
• uncommon
• uncontrollable
• undoing
• undulating
• unexpected
• unforeseen
• unimaginable
• unique
• unlikely
• unmanning
• unnerving
• unsettling
• unstringing
• unthinkable
• unusual
• unwonted
• upsetting
• vibrating
• wabbling
• wavering
• waving
• weirding out
• wobbling
• wonderful
• wondrous
• wrenching
• wresting
• wringing
• yanking

rabid

• acrid
• acrimonious
• aggravated
• aggressive
• agitated
• angered
• angry
• annoyed
• antagonistic
• antipathetic
• antisocial
• apoplectic
• argumentative
• assertive
• ballistic
• bang-bang
• barbarous
• bearish
• bellicose
• belligerent
• bent out of shape
• berserk
• bigoted
• bilious
• bitten
• bitter
• blood-and-guts
• blue in the face
• boiling
• bristling
• bristly
• brutal
• burning
• cantankerous
• cataclysmal
• cataclysmic
• cheesed off
• choleric
• churlish
• cold
• combative
• combustible
• concentrated
• contentious
• contrary
• convulsive
• cool
• corybantic
• crabby
• cranky
• crazed
• crazy
• cross
• cyclonic
• delirious
• demented
• deranged
• destructive
• disagreeable
• disapproving
• disputatious
• distant
• dyspeptic
• embittered
• enflamed
• enraged
• enthusiastic
• exasperated
• excessive
• exorbitant
• explosive
• extravagant
• extreme
• extremist
• fanatic
• fanatical
• ferocious
• fervent
• feverish
• fierce
• fit to be tied
• flipped
• foaming
• foaming at the mouth
• frantic
• freaked-out
• frenetic
• frenzied
• fretful
• frigid
• fuming
• furious
• fussy
• gladiatorial
• going crook
• grouchy
• grumpy
• hammer-and-tongs
• high-pressured
• hog-wild
• hopping
• hopping mad
• horn-mad
• hostile
• hot
• hot under the collar
• huffy
• icy
• ill-humored
• ill-tempered
• immoderate
• in a fume
• in a huff
• in a pet
• incensed
• indignant
• inflamed
• inflammable
• infuriate
• infuriated
• inimical
• inordinate
• insane
• intemperate
• intense
• intensive
• intolerant
• irascible
• irate
• ireful
• irrational
• irritable
• keen
• knock-down-and-drag-out
• lavish
• livid
• lunatic
• mad
• mad-dog
• malevolent
• maniac
• maniacal
• narrow-minded
• nutty
• obsessed
• ornery
• outraged
• overboard
• overmuch
• overweening
• paroxysmal
• passionate
• peevish
• perturbed
• petulant
• piqued
• poisoned
• pugnacious
• put out
• quarrelsome
• querulous
• quick-tempered
• radical
• raging
• rancorous
• rankled
• ranting
• raving
• reactionary
• resentful
• revolutionary
• revolutionist
• riled
• riley
• roiled
• rough
• ruinous
• savage
• seething
• shirty
• sick
• sizzling
• smoking
• smoldering
• smouldering
• snappish
• sore
• sorehead
• soreheaded
• spiteful
• steamed up
• steaming
• stormy
• subversive
• sulky
• teed off
• tempestuous
• testy
• ticked
• touchy
• truculent
• tumultuous
• turbulent
• ultra
• ultraist
• unconscionable
• undue
• unfriendly
• unpleasant
• vehement
• vengeful
• vicious
• vindictive
• violent
• virulent
• vitriolic
• volatile
• volcanic
• wild
• worked up
• wrathful
• wroth
• zealous

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