thundering
/ˈθʌnd(ə)rɪŋ
/adjective
1 [attributive] Making a resounding, loud, deep noise: thundering waterfalls...
- With real relief, he followed the noise to a thundering waterfall whose mist painted a soggy rainbow above the lagoon.
- Our first port of call is the turbine hall, filled with thundering noise and dominated by two gigantic machines, each as big as a locomotive, which generate the power of Scotland.
- The crowds at this year's Eldwick and Gilstead Gala were temporarily silenced by the thundering noise of a Spitfire and Hurricane roaring past overhead.
2 informal Extremely great, severe, or impressive: a thundering bore [as submodifier]: a thundering good read...
- This time around, he will start as a real contender and will exploit the thundering power of the 4.7-litre Tiger on the long straights in Clipstone.
- Thomas Walsh hurled a thundering first half, scoring two powerful points, one the score of the game from the left wing side-line.
- Bellamy's match winner, four minutes after Jaaskelainen had saved Laurent Robert's thundering drive, was the Mags' 78th goal in all competitions this season!
Derivatives
thunderingly
[as submodifier]: it was so thunderingly dull...
- This probably offended the odd sensitive viewer, although Brown is so thunderingly wholesome that it seems unlikely.
- And it doesn't hurt that this production features a trio of thunderingly good performances from its cast.
- Yet in the Bush era, where religion enters politics it is usually, thunderingly, from the right.
Rhymes
- surface condensation
- surface condenser
- surface contact
- surface-couched
- surface couching
- surface crossing
- surfaced
- surface damage
- surface density
- surface effect
- surface energy
- surface film
- surface find
- surface friction
- surface gage
- surface gauge
- surface grammar
- surface grinder
- surface-grinding machine
- surface grub
- surface-harden
- surface-hardened
- surface hardening
- surface integral
- surfaceless