thundery
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Weather with thunder and dark clouds
- adjective
- /ˈθʌndəri/
:
tormentoso
- Dark thundery clouds gathered rapidly, warning of severe weather on the way.
Examples
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A thundery afternoon kept everyone indoors, listening to the rumble overhead.
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The sky looked thundery, and we expected a storm to start at any moment.
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The sky looks thundery today.
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It feels quite thundery outside.
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A dark sky filled with thundery clouds signaled that a storm was approaching.
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We stayed inside as the thundery weather caused the power to flicker.
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The forecast predicted thundery conditions throughout the evening.
Synonyms
stormy
vsthundery
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1.0
Strong winds and heavy rain that make travel difficult
focuses on loud sky booms rather than broad wind and rain
How Stormy
Surface Forms
thundery positive
Morphology
Etymology
Thundery comes from thunder, the loud noise in the sky, plus the ending -y which means 'full of' or 'having'. So, thundery describes weather that is 'full of thunder' or likely to bring storms.