thunderhead
4
6.3
- noun
- /ˈθʌndərˌhɛd/
:
cumulonimbo
- As they hiked up the mountain, they noticed towering thunderheads building in the distance, signaling an approaching storm.
- towering thunderheads
- thunderheads boil
- thunderheads building
Examples
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When I got out on the dock, I could see thunderheads building in the east, so I worked pretty fast.
Fiction book (1999) -
The blue of the sky had paled; a bank of distant thunderheads had taken on a pinkish cast.
Fiction book (2001) -
By now, we were out of the cell and into more-or-less clear air under the thunderhead.
Fiction book (1999) -
When the train came out of the tunnel, she saw thunderheads turning the sky yellow and gray.
Fiction book (1999) -
Harry looked away and saw in the sky a massive thunderhead, angry cumulus plumes, yellow and green.
Fiction book (1996) -
And then, out from under thunderheads, exactly over the project, only there, the weather suddenly clears.
Fiction book (2001) -
Without even thinking about it, I set course for the nearest group of forming thunderheads.
Fiction book (1999) -
To the west, a thunderhead billowed up, its bright lobes as solid as marble.
Fiction book (1991) -
Around three or four o'clock, big thunderheads boiled up in the west.
Fiction book (1991) -
Barn and Yolanda were outside looking up into the gray sky, checking for thunderheads.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
14
1.0
A dark, heavy cloud that shows rain or a storm is coming
3
2.5
A large dark cloud that brings thunder, lightning, and heavy rain
2
9.7
A very large dark cloud that brings thunder, heavy rain, and lightning
1
4.8
A very tall dark cloud that brings heavy rain, thunder, and lightning
Antonyms
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word thunderhead comes from thunder ('the loud sound from a storm') and head ('top' or 'rounded part'). So, a thunderhead is the big, rounded top of a cloud, the 'head' of a storm that often brings thunder and rain.