Word Meanings - THUNDEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Producing thunder. How he before the thunderous throne doth lie. Milton. 2. Making a noise like thunder; sounding loud and deep; sonorous. -- Thun"der*ous*ly, adv.
Related words: (words related to THUNDEROUS)
- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - SOUNDER
One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - SOUNDLESS
Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak. - THUNDERING
1. Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull. 2. Very great; -- often adverbially. -- Thun"der*ing*ly, adv. - BEFORETIME
Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5. - SOUNDLY
In a sound manner. - SOUNDNESS
The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude. - PRODUCTIVITY
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge. - THUNDERER
One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope. - PRODUCTUS
An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks. - THUNDERSHOWER
A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder. - MAKE
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer. - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - THRONELESS
Having no throne. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - SOUNDING BALLOON
An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aƫronautic purposes. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - HIGH-SOUNDING
Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles. - RESOUND
resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - UNTHRONE
To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone. Milton. - DISTHRONE
To dethrone. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages. - DETHRONEMENT
Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power. - HAYMAKING
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay. - OVERPRODUCTION
Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill. - DETHRONER
One who dethrones.