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thundering
CIDE DICTIONARY
thundering, a.
- Emitting thunder. [1913 Webster]"Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground." [1913 Webster]
- Very great; -- often adverbially. [1913 Webster]
thundering, n.
Thunder. Rev. iv. 5. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
thundering, adj. colloq. very big or great (a thundering nuisance).
Derivative
thunderingly adv.
THESAURUS
thundering
Donar, Indra, Jupiter Tonans, Thor, anathema, ban, banging, blasphemy, boom, booming, bumping, cannonading, commination, curse, damnation, deafening, deep, denunciation, dread rattling thunder, echo, echoic, echoing, evil eye, excommunication, execration, fulminating, fulmination, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, hex, imprecation, intense, lingering, loud, malison, malocchio, peal of thunder, pealing, penetrating, persistent, piercing, proscription, pungent, reboant, reboation, rebound, rebounding, reecho, reechoing, reeking, repercussive, resound, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberation, reverberatory, roaring, rolling, rumble, rumbling, slapping, sounding, spanking, thumping, thunder, thunderclap, thundercrack, thunderlike, thunderous, thunderpeal, thunderstorm, thunderstroke, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, undamped, volleying, walloping, whacking, whaling, whammy, whoppingROGET THESAURUS
thundering
Size
N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.Loudness
N loudness, power, loud noise, din, blare, clang, clangor, clatter, noise, bombilation, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub, bobbery, fracas, charivari, trumpet blast, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, tintamarre, peal, swell, blast, larum, boom, bang (explosion), resonance, vociferation, hullabaloo, lungs, Stentor, artillery, cannon, thunder, loud, sonorous, high-sounding, big-sounding, deep, full, powerful, noisy, blatant, clangorous, multisonous, thundering, deafening, trumpet-tongued, ear-splitting, ear-rending, ear-deafening, piercing, obstreperous, rackety, uproarious, enough to wake the dead, enough to wake seven sleepers, shrill &c 410 clamorous stentorian, stentorophonic, loudly, aloud, at the top of one's voice, at the top of one's lungs, lustily, in full cry, the air rings with, the deep dread-bolted thunder.For further exploring for "thundering" in Webster Dictionary Online