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thunderous, a.|ˈθʌndərəs|
Also 6 thunderus, 7–9 thundrous.
[f. thunder n. + -ous.]
1. Full of or charged with thunder; of or pertaining to thunder; thundery.
1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 25 O God most puisaunt, whose mighty auctoritye..mankind skeareth with thunderus humbling. 1667Milton P.L. x. 702 Notus and Afer black with thundrous Clouds. 1726Pope Odyss. xix. 513 Nor winter's boreal blast, nor thund'rous show'r, Nor solar ray, cou'd pierce the shady bow'r. 1876Black Madcap V. xiv, The lurid and sultry evening had died down into a gloomy and thunderous darkness. 1904M. Hewlett Queen's Quair iii. x. 484 The 10th of June had been a thunderous day.
2. Resembling thunder in its loudness.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. i. Trophies 370 Rushing with thundrous roar. 1820Keats Hyperion ii. 8 Thunderous waterfalls and torrents hoarse. 1875H. James R. Hudson vii. 239 In a voice almost thunderous,..he repeated, ‘Sit down!’ 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. vi, Herr Klesmer..at the piano, struck a thunderous chord. 1892Times 10 June 9/1 Which [motion] was carried amid thunderous applause.
3. fig. Suggestive of thunder; of threatening aspect, or charged with latent energy, like a thunder-cloud; violent, destructive, or terrifying like thunder.
1844Mrs. Browning Vis. Poets xcix, Here, Homer, with the broad suspense Of thunderous brows. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets vii. 218 Her [Medea's] fiery eyes and thundrous silence. 1874Blackie Self-Cult. 57 The first Napoleon, in his thunderous career over our western world.
Hence ˈthunderously adv., in a thunderous manner, with a noise like thunder, very loudly; with threatening aspect as if presaging thunder; ˈthunderousness, thunderous quality.
1842L. Hunt Palfrey i. 184 Shaking him and his saddle right thunderously. 1886E. S. Phelps Burglars in Paradise vii, Some one knocked thunderously at the back door. 1903A. Smellie Men of the Covt. vii. (1904) 103 The skies hung still more thunderously over Presbyterian Scotland. 1904Westm. Gaz. 17 Mar. 2/1 The great organ-voice of many waters sounding in mellowed thunderousness. |