thunderstriking

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of thunderstrike

comparative more thunderstriking · superlative most thunderstriking

1. rareCausing great amazement or shock.

   He then took shelter from the rage that might be expected to follow such thunder-striking intelligence under the bed clothes,

   1797, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 19, in Family Secrets: Literary and Domestic, volume 3, London: T.N. Longman, page 176

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   The opening of territory to slavery […] was the arousing, astounding, thunderstriking event that brought Lincoln back into politics and lifted him to a new level of public moral argument.

   2002, William Lee Miller, chapter 9, in Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography, New York: Knopf, pages 238–239

   Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, devastating, mind-blowing, stupefying