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Definition of Thundery
1. Adjective. Loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss.
2. Adjective. Accompanied with thunder.
Definition of Thundery
1. a. Accompanied with thunder; thunderous.
Definition of Thundery
1. Adjective. (context: of weather) stormy, with thunder ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thundery
1. accompanied with thunder [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thundery
Literary usage of Thundery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Correlation Theory of Chemical Action and Affinity by Thomas Wright Hall (1888)
"And the gaseous, correlated Cloud form is seen leaving the sky as a sudden shower
of characteristically thick, heavy, liquid, thundery Raindrops, ..."
2. On Causation: With a Chapter on Belief by Charles Arthur Mercier (1916)
"... sour in thundery weather, and-sometimes turns sour when the weather is not
thundery; but still, considering how relatively rare thundery weather is, ..."
3. Symons's Meteorological Magazine (1904)
"Copies of the barometric traces, showing the oscillations so characteristic of
thundery weather, would be of the greatest value as these oscillations appear ..."
4. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"thundery rain occurred In southern England on the i4th, spreading to other parts
of the country on the isth ... thundery showers occurred on the 2ist to »nd ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"I am delighted to hear it ; a thundery headache is a distressing thing." "
It must be, but I'm not aware that she has one. I haven't. Have you? ..."
6. The Congressional Globe by United States Congress, Francis Preston Blair, John Cook Rives, George A. Bailey, Franklin Rives (1857)
"... for completion of thundery, machine, and boiler-shop; completing dock engine,
... heating plumbers' nnd block shop; machinery for thundery, boiler shop, ..."
7. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1884)
"In the afternoon, which was dull, close, and thundery, I went searching for
insects at rest upon rocks. ... Wednesday, July 4th, was cloudy and thundery. ..."
8. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1895)
"At night the weather became thundery in the last named district, and on Wednesday
violent thunderstorms occurred in Ireland, in central and northern England ..."
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