Synonyms for thunder
ˈθʌn dərthun·der

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. boom, roar, roaring, thundernoun

   a deep prolonged loud noise

   Synonyms:
   microphone boom, nose drops, bellowing, bellow, scag, hollo, gravy, godsend, bonanza, holla, yowl, big H, hell dust, hollering, holler, gold rush, windfall, smack, manna from heaven, roar, bunce, roaring, boom, holloa, skag

2. thundernoun

   a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning

   Synonyms:
   skag, big H, smack, hell dust, boom, roar, nose drops, scag, roaring

3. big H, hell dust, nose drops, smack, thunder, skag, scagverb

   street names for heroin

   Synonyms:
   roaring, scag, flavour, hell dust, relish, savour, nose drops, big H, smooch, smack, flavor, smacking, roar, sapidity, slap, boom, tang, savor, skag

4. thunderverb

   move fast, noisily, and heavily

   "The bus thundered down the road"

   Synonyms:
   boom, roar

5. thunder, roarverb

   utter words loudly and forcefully

   "`Get out of here,' he roared"

   Synonyms:
   howl, yawl, yaup, boom, bellow, wail, ululate, roar

6. thunder, boomverb

   be the case that thunder is being heard

   "Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed"

   Synonyms:
   thrive, flourish, blast, boom, din, expand, smash, nail, roar, boom out

7. thunderverb

   to make or produce a loud noise

   "The river thundered below"; "The engine roared as the driver pushed the car to full throttle"

   Synonyms:
   boom, roar

Matched Categories

1. • Move
   • Noise
   • Roar
   • Shout

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thundernoun

   Associated words:
   brontology, thor, brontorneter, brontograph, fulmineous, fulminatory, isobront, keraunophobia

2. thundernoun

   Synonyms:
   fulmination, denunciation

3. thunderverb

   Synonyms:
   detonate, roll, boom

4. thunderverb

   Synonyms:
   fulminate, denounce

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "thunder":

   thunderstorm, lightning

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1. Herman Melville:

   There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

2. Clint Eastwood:

   They say marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning

3. Thomas Mann:

   Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

4. Ko Sai:

   We just heard a loud noise sounding like thunder and saw that the huge mountain collapsed and a huge wave of rubble was moving and sprawling on a wide area, it was just like a nightmare.

5. Sergei Shoigu:

   This month, during the U.S. Global Thunder strategic force exercise, 10 strategic bombers practiced the scenario of using nuclear weapons against Russia practically simultaneously from the western and eastern directions.