thunderous

Examples

• All

• "Excellent," Mikelis said, and even FitzGilbert looked a little less thunderous.

  Fiction book (1990)

• It is here that the tide of chaos was broken with a thunderous hammer blow.

• If student action has been dramatic in the United States, its impact has been thunderous in Europe.

• The sound of the sea behind is thunderous.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Finally, Annie could bear the thunderous tension no longer.

  Fiction book (1994)

• A long interval elapsed during which neither of us spoke, and the sound of the crickets was thunderous.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The silence was thunderous.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The funeral dirges of all sorts were uttered in a thunderous, heart-melting outcry.

  Fiction book (1991)

• As for Dom Nicolau, he had huddled down in his chair, frightened by the thunderous verbosity of the tiny physicist and the delicacy of the situation.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The thunderous applause from the audience filled the concert hall.

Synonyms

B

booming

vsthunderous

3 3.4

A deep loud voice or sound that echoes

is more about ominous power and seriousness than just loud sound

T

thundering

vsthunderous

5.3

Something that is very powerful and makes people notice

is more ominous and serious rather than only intense

Antonyms

I

insignificant

104 4.1

Not important or too small to matter

U

unthreatening

4 3.2

Not causing fear and looking harmless

How Ominous

thunderous

1 4.8

portentous

• Formal

4 8.6

ominous

96 6.4

worrying

6 2.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology