'Thundering' definitions:
Definition of 'thundering'
From: WordNet
adjective
Sounding like thunder; "the thundering herd"
adjective
Extraordinarily big or impressive; "a thundering success"; "the thundering silence of what was left unsaid"
Definition of 'Thundering'
From: GCIDE
- Thundering \Thun"der*ing\, a.
- 1. Emitting thunder. [1913 Webster]
- Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. --J. Trumbull. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Very great; -- often adverbially. [Slang] [1913 Webster] -- {Thun"der*ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Thundering'
From: GCIDE
- Thundering \Thun"der*ing\, n. Thunder. --Rev. iv. 5. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Thundering'
From: GCIDE
- Thunder \Thun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Thundering.] [AS. [thorn]unrian. See Thunder, n.]
- 1. To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously. [1913 Webster]
- Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? --Job xl. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance. [1913 Webster]
- His dreadful voice no more Would thunder in my ears. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To utter violent denunciation. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'thundering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anathema,
- ban,
- banging,
- blasphemy,
- boom,
- booming,
- bumping,
- cannonading,
- commination,
- curse,
- damnation,
- deafening,
- deep,
- denunciation,
- Donar,
- dread rattling thunder,
- echo,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- evil eye,
- excommunication,
- execration,
- fulminating,
- fulmination,
- growl,
- growling,
- grumble,
- grumbling,
- hex,
- imprecation,
- Indra,
- intense,
- Jupiter Tonans,
- 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,
- Thor,
- thumping,
- thunder,
- thunderclap,
- thundercrack,
- thunderlike,
- thunderous,
- thunderpeal,
- thunderstorm,
- thunderstroke,
- thundery,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- undamped,
- volleying,
- walloping,
- whacking,
- whaling,
- whammy,
- whopping