thunderousadj.
/ˈθʌndərəs/ 1. Full of or charged with thunder; of or pertaining to thunder; thundery.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [adjective] > thunder
thundering1530
thunderous1582
thundery1605
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 7 O God most pusiaunt, whose mighty auctoritye..mankind skeareth with thunderus humbling.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 702 Notus and Afer black with thundrous Clouds. View more context for this quotation
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 513 Nor winter's boreal blast, nor thund'rous show'r, Nor solar ray, cou'd pierce the shadowy bow'r.
1876 W. Black Madcap Violet xiv The lurid and sultry evening had died down into a gloomy and thunderous darkness.
1904 M. Hewlett Queen's Quair iii. x. 484 The 10th of June had been a thunderous day.
2. Resembling thunder in its loudness.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective]
loud971
stithc1000
strongOE
greata1375
stiff1377
wrastc1400
boistousc1430
stourc1440
big1549
routing1567
thundering?1576
full-mouthed1594
thunderous1606
tonitruous1606
thundery1608
trump-like1609
full-mouth1624
voluminousa1635
rousing1640
altisonous1661
lusty1672
tonitrual1693
rending1719
trumpet-like1814
foudroyant1840
clarion1842
trumpeting1850
trumpet-toned1851
loudish1860
tonitruant1861
tonant1891
thunderful1898
high1923
wham-bam1960
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 11 Rushing with thundrous roar.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 167 Thunderous waterfalls and torrents hoarse.
1875 H. James Roderick Hudson vii. 239 In a voice almost thunderous,..he repeated, ‘Sit down!’
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. vi. 104 Herr Klesmer..at the piano, struck a thunderous chord.
1892 Times 10 June 9/1 Which [motion] was carried amid thunderous applause.
3. figurative. Suggestive of thunder; of threatening aspect, or charged with latent energy, like a thunder-cloud; violent, destructive, or terrifying like thunder.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] > specifically of aspect, etc.
louringa1450
ominousa1593
loury1686
to look black1709
squally1814
thundery1824
thunderous1844
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective]
fellc1330
undone1340
ruinous?a1439
violablea1470
perniciousc1475
destructive1490
confusible1502
destroying1535
exitiable1548
ruinate1562
peremptory1567
wrackful1578
slaughterous1582
ruinating1595
ruining1605
corrumpent1607
wracksome1608
in suds1611
destructory1614
poisonousa1616
wrakefulc1625
predatory1626
predatorious1641
demolishing1648
untwined1649
undoing1654
destructionable1656
destructful1659
mortal1670
wreckinga1677
fatal1692
quadrumanous1704
interdestructive1805
annihilatory1825
demolitionary1834
ruinatious1845
consumptive1860
thunderous1874
the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective]
retheeOE
hotOE
strongOE
woodlyc1000
un-i-rideOE
stoura1122
brathc1175
unridec1175
unrudec1225
starklyc1275
toughc1275
wood1297
ragec1330
unrekena1350
biga1375
furialc1386
outrageousc1390
savagea1393
violenta1393
bremelya1400
snarta1400
wrothlya1400
fightingc1400
runishc1400
dour?a1425
derfc1440
churlousa1450
roida1450
fervent1465
churlish1477
orgulous1483
felona1500
brathfula1522
brathlya1525
fanatic1533
furious1535
boisterous1544
blusterous1548
ungentle1551
sore1563
full-mouthed1594
savage wild1595
Herculean1602
shrill1608
robustious1612
efferous1614
thundering1618
churly1620
ferocient1655
turbulent1656
efferate1684
knock-me-down1760
haggard-wild1786
ensanguined1806
rammish1807
fulminatory1820
riproarious1830
natural1832
survigrous1835
sabre-toothed1849
cataclysmal1861
thunderous1874
fierce1912
cataractal1926
1844 E. B. Browning Vision of Poets xcix Here, Homer, with the broad suspense Of thunderous brows.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 218 Her [Medea's] fiery eyes and thundrous silence.
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 57 The first Napoleon, in his thunderous career over our western world.
Derivatives
ˈthunderously adv. in a thunderous manner, with a noise like thunder, very loudly; with threatening aspect as if presaging thunder.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adverb]
loud971
bremeOE
strongly1340
sternly?a1400
lustilyc1400
great1534
vociferously1637
stentorophonically1693
thunderously1842
full blast1936
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > thunder and lightning > [adverb] > with or betokening thunder
thunderously1842
1842 L. Hunt Palfrey i. 184 Shaking him and his saddle right thunderously.
1886 E. S. Phelps Burglars in Paradise vii Some one knocked thunderously at the back door.
1903 A. Smellie Men of Covenant (1904) vii. 103 The skies hung still more thunderously over Presbyterian Scotland.
ˈthunderousness n. thunderous quality.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun]
loudnessc1050
magnitude?a1425
vehemencyc1487
noisiness1727
streperousness1727
thunderousness1904
1904 Westm. Gaz. 17 Mar. 2/1 The great organ-voice of many waters sounding in mellowed thunderousness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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