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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. sounding like thunder;
- Example: "the thundering herd"

2. extraordinarily big or impressive;
- Example: "a thundering success"
- Example: "the thundering silence of what was left unsaid"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Thundering \Thun"der*ing\, n. Thunder. --Rev. iv. 5. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

thundering adj 1: sounding like thunder; "the thundering herd" 2: extraordinarily big or impressive; "a thundering success"; "the thundering silence of what was left unsaid"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "thundering": Donar, Indra, Jupiter Tonans, Thor, anathema, ban, banging, blasphemy, boom, booming, bumping, cannonading, commination, curse, damnation, deafening, deep, denunciation, dread rattling thunder, echo, echoic, echoing, evil eye, excommunication, execration, fulminating, fulmination, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, hex, imprecation, intense, 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, thumping, thunder, thunderclap, thundercrack, thunderlike, thunderous, thunderpeal, thunderstorm, thunderstroke, thundery, tonitruant, tonitruous, undamped, volleying, walloping, whacking, whaling, whammy, whopping