thunderingly

comparative more thunderingly · superlative most thunderingly

1. In a thundering way; with great noise or fury.

   The male announcer eventually came back on stage to say that there would be a brief pause as the votes were counted and introduced another display of Mandi Steele video footage with thunderingly loud, dramatic music.

   2003, Ed Howdershelt, An Encounter in Atlanta, page 54

2. informalExtremely; marvellously.

   At its most basic, this is thunderingly enjoyable Victorian melodrama. But as always in Sondheim, there is a marvellous intelligence and wit at work.

   1993, Theatre Record, volume 13, numbers 10-19, page 607

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   The three younger brothers had from childhood upwards always ridden such thunderingly good flesh, and drunk such thunderingly good claret, that they imagined themselves great swells accordingly […]

   1864, Alfred Austin, An Artist's Proof, volume 1, page 83