turbulent

(s) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
- effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive
- riotous times
- these troubled areas
- the tumultuous years of his administration
- a turbulent and unruly childhood
disruptive, tumultuous, riotous, troubled,
(s) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
- the river's roiling current
- turbulent rapids
roiling, roily, churning, roiled,

disruptive tumultuous riotous troubled roiling roily churning roiled

turbulent flow turbulently