thunderingly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English thundering Middle English -ly English -ly English thunderingly From thundering + -ly.

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.”

2. Extremely; marvellously.

   “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 […]”

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