What is another word for thunderous?

Pronunciation: [θˈʌndəɹəs] (IPA)

Thunderous is an adjective used to describe loud and powerful sounds, particularly those resembling the booming noise of thunder. Other words that can be used as synonyms to thunderous include deafening, resounding, reverberating, and booming. These terms can be applied to various sources of sound like explosions, applause, or heavy machinery, and they all connote noise that is intense and overwhelming. Words like mighty, impressive, and forceful can also be used to describe the power behind the sound, while terms like ominous, foreboding, and threatening can connote a sense of danger or menace associated with the noise.

What are the hypernyms for Thunderous?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for thunderous?

Thunderous refers to a loud, rumbling and explosive sound which can be heard from a distance. Its antonyms include quiet, silent, hushed, soft, faint, subtle, and peaceful. Quiet denotes a lack of disturbance or stillness whereas silent suggests an absence of sound or noise. Hushed implies a lowered or suppressed volume, and soft describes something that is gentle and low in intensity. Faint refers to a sound that is barely audible, while subtle suggests a delicate or understated quality. Peaceful means being free from any noise or commotion. Hence, these words present a range of contrasting meanings to the term thunderous.

What are the antonyms for Thunderous?

Usage examples for Thunderous

Were I to attempt to describe the character of the thunderous noises in the ship I should not be believed.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
The white and frozen steeps glared a bald reply; and I heard nothing but menace in the shrill noises of the wind and the deep and thunderous roaring of the ocean.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Miss Honnor Cunyngham would be in Brighton in November; and Brighton was not so far away from the great city and the dull, continuous, thunderous roar that would then be all around him.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black

Famous quotes with Thunderous

  • Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
    Salvador Dali
  • Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
    Ben Vereen
  • So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
    George Lucas
  • A fellow with a great voice shouted, "Hearken now to the words of the President of the Confederate States of America, the honorable Woodrow Wilson." The president turned this way and that, surveying the great swarm of people all around him in the moment of silence the volley had brought. Then, swinging back to face the statue of George Washington- and, incidentally, Reginald Bartlett- he said, "The father of our country warned us against entangling alliances, a warning that served us well when we were yoked to the North, before its arrogance created in our Confederacy what had never existed before- a national consciousness. That was our salvation and our birth as a free and independent country." Silence broke then, with a thunderous outpouring of applause. Wilson raised a bony right hand. Slowly, silence, of a semblance of it, returned. The president went on, "But our birth of national consciousness made the United States jealous, and they tried to beat us down. We found loyal friends in England and France. Can we now stand aside when the German tyrant threatens to grind them under his iron heel?" "No!" Bartlett shouted himself hoarse, along with thousands of his countrymen. Stunned, deafened, he had trouble hearing what Wilson said next: "Jealous still, the United States in their turn also developed a national consciousness, a dark and bitter one, as any so opposed to ours must be." He spoke not like a politician inflaming a crowd but like a professor setting out arguments- he had taken one path before choosing the other. "The German spirit of arrogance and militarism has taken hold in the United States; they see only the gun as the proper arbiter between nations, and their president takes Wilhelm as his model. He struts and swaggers and acts the fool in all regards." Now he sounded like a politician; he despised Theodore Roosevelt, and took pleasure in Roosevelt's dislike for him.
    Harry Turtledove
  • Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.
    William Wordsworth

Related words: thunderous noise, thunderous sound, thunderous roar, thunderous clap, thunderous applause, thunderous sounds

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