Word Meanings - THUNDERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull. 2. Very great; -- often adverbially. -- Thun"der*ing*ly, adv.

Related words: (words related to THUNDERING)

• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• THUNDERING
  1. Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull. 2. Very great; -- often adverbially. -- Thun"der*ing*ly, adv.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• CHARIOTEE
  A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.
• EMITTENT
  Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• 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.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• OFTEN
  Frequently; many times; not seldom.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• FOREGROUND
  On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
• UPTHUNDER
  To send up a noise like thunder. Coleridge.
• BACKGROUND
  The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had
• UNDERGROUND
  The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. A spirit raised from depth of underground. Shak.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.