Thunderbolt
Word | THUNDERBOLT |
Character | 11 |
Hyphenation | thun der bolt |
Pronunciations | /ˈθʌndə(ɹ)ˌboʊlt/ |
Definitions and meanings of "Thunderbolt"
What do we mean by thunderbolt?
A discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder. noun
A flash of lightning conceived as a bolt or dart hurled from the heavens. noun
A startling, forceful action. noun
To strike with or as with lightning.
A flash of lightning with the accompanying crash of thunder: so called because regarded as due to the hurling of a bolt or shaft at the object struck by the lightning. See def. 2. noun
The imaginary bolt or shaft (often regarded as a stone) conceived as the material agent or substance of a flash of lightning, and the cause of the accompanying crash of thunder: an attribute of Zeus or Jupiter as the god of thunder (Jupiter Tonans); specifically, in heraldry, a bearing representing a thunderbolt more or less like that of Jupiter. noun
A stone or other hard concretion of distinctive shape, usually tapering or spear-like, found in the ground, and supposed in popular superstition to have been the material substance of a thunderbolt (in sense 2), and to have fallen from heaven with the lightning. noun
Figuratively, one who is daring or irresistible; one who acts with fury or with sudden and resistless force. noun
A dreadful threat, denunciation, censure, or the like, proceeding from some high authority; a fulmination. noun
Plural The white campion (Lychnis vespertina), the corn-poppy (Papaver Rhœas), or the bladder-campion (Silene Cucubalus)—the last so named from the slight report made by exploding the inflated calyx. noun
A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth. noun
Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness. noun
Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination. noun
A belemnite, or thunderstone. noun
A long-horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra. noun
A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder. noun
An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected. noun
A very powerful shot. noun
A belemnite, or thunderstone. noun
A shocking surprise noun
A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.
An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.
Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
A very powerful shot.
A belemnite, or thunderstone.
A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.
A daring or irresistible hero.
Synonyms and Antonyms for Thunderbolt
- Synonyms for thunderbolt
- Blue Darter Synonyms
- Blockbuster Synonyms
- Jupiter Fulgur Synonyms
- Antelope Synonyms
- Blue Streak Synonyms
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Cross Reference for Thunderbolt
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