thunderous
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Synonyms & Antonyms for thunderous
Synonyms
blaring, blasting, booming, clamorous, clangorous, deafening, earsplitting, loud, piercing, plangent, resounding, ringing, roaring, slam-bang, sonorous, stentorian, thundering
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He was met with thunderous standing applause from the body of the Republican Party. — Robert Kabeland And Jill Homan, Twin Cities, "Kabeland, Homan: Trump defends LGBTQ rights. He has our Log Cabin endorsement.," 17 Aug. 2019 Running back Gale Sayers was wheeled onto the stage to thunderous applause. — Kalyn Kahler, SI.com, "The Bears at 100: Cheers and a Few Tears," 11 June 2019 Favorable winds kept epic wildfire smoke from ruining the spectacle on eclipse day, when the moon’s shadow was met with hoots and hollers and thunderous applause. — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, "In the Moon's Shadow, America Looks Up," 29 Dec. 2017 But within that passionate, thunderous visitation is a sense of uncertainty, of fragility. — E.h., The Economist, "The wondrous power of Martha Argerich," 22 Aug. 2019 There’s no beholding distance from their monotonously compact, rounded breasts and thunderous thighs, smushed into depthless landscapes and interiors, and thus no imaginable approach to intimacy. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, "Renoir’s Problem Nudes," 19 Aug. 2019 After its thunderous denunciations of Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump, will pundits, editorial boards, and reporters take a look at the scandal hiding in plain sight? — David French, National Review, "Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites to Plan Their Trip to Israel," 16 Aug. 2019 From pretty much the moment Jimi Hendrix’s thunderous set closed out the festival, Woodstock was primarily significant as a media construct. — Tom Carson, Los Angeles Times, "Woodstock glorified them. Tarantino barbecued them. In 2019, whither the hippie?," 15 Aug. 2019 And drummer Keeler — a native Hoosier who grew up west of Cincinnati in Bright, Indiana — proved to be legitimately John Bonham-esque when delivering thunderous beats throughout the show. — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, "The Raconteurs turn back clock (and shut down phones) to show off rock's classic traits," 13 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'thunderous.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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