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View synonyms for thundery

thundery

[ thuhn-duh-ree ]

adjective



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Word History and Origins

Origin of thundery1

First recorded in 1590–1600; thunder + -y 1
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Example Sentences

Yesterday, one heavy thundery downpour soaked central London in five minutes, before blue skies returned.

The gardeners had been mowing, and there was still the smell of fresh-cut grass—the thundery air kept all scents close to earth.

It was a brooding, thundery day, sultry and threatening—the 17th of July, according to the calendar.

Not one of the six maidens ever remembered a home-coming over-clouded as was Judge Fell's on that thundery afternoon of late July.

We have already had hot and thundery weather, but it has now become cool again.

Cold—dampy-cold—dry cold; warm—close-warm—breezy warm; hot, thundery hot, scorching.

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