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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thundery
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between searingly bright periods, the sky boils with thundery clouds that drift on by without releasing a drop.
▪ She hadn't had a headache today, in spite of the thundery heat.
▪ So the atmosphere is very thundery at present, and life is anything but gay.
▪ The weather looked heavy and thundery, as if the unseasonable warmth would soon break.
▪ There was a rather thundery purple-grey sky and the big trees were swaying about, like restless tied animals.
▪ These showers will gradually spread east and some may become thundery.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thundery

Thundery \Thun"der*y\, a. Accompanied with thunder; thunderous. [R.] ``Thundery weather.''
--Pennant.

Wiktionary
thundery

a. (context of weather English) stormy, with thunder

WordNet
thundery

  1. adj. loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss [syn: deafening, earsplitting, roaring, thunderous]

  2. accompanied with thunder

Usage examples of "thundery".

At the start of that hot, thundery summer I leaned out of my window watching the world pass below, convinced that somebody somewhere would still need watercolours, gouaches and pencil sketches, and that I could produce them from my penthouse eyrie.

At the start of that hot, thundery summer I leaned out of my window watching the world pass below, convinced that somebody somewhere would still need watercolours, gouaches and pencil sketches, and that I could produce them from my penthouse eyrie.

Once he did ask me what the weather had been like the day before, when I had been down to Yas Island or somewhere, and afterwards the remark stuck in my mind, because it had been a thundery sort of day and something in the words he used were well informed for a bank clerk.

The sky was a deep, thundery grey and it was a relief to gain the warmth and light of the changing rooms, even if they knew the respite was only temporary.