thunderstorm

Noun

Meaning

A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hurricane gale thunder blizzard tempest cyclone squall twister hailstorm weather rain rainfall storm flood monsoon
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Antonyms

mist sprinkle drizzle mizzle prairie fire brush fire
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Phrases with the word

like a dying duck in a thunderstorm

Examples

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm 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. Thomas Mann

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stevenson

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air. Friedrich Schiller

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side. Ralph Steadman

See her smiling at him? That used to be me, and I could find her in a thunderstorm just by the way that the rain would fall. Ryan Adams

I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did. Robert Jordan

Close letter words and terms

thundersquall thunderstick thunderstone thunderstorm asthma thunderstormy thunderstricken