a. rare. [f. THUNDER sb. + -FUL.] Full of or charged with thunder; loosely, thundering, sounding like thunder.
1786. H. Walpole, Lett. to Mann, 20 May (1844), IV. 373–4. The chorus and kettle-drums for four hours were so thunderful, that they gave me the headache, to which I am not at all subject.
1851. E. Lear, Jrnl. Landscape Painter in Albania, 179. Those thunderful gusts which swept over the plain at intervals with terrific force.
1867. Leavenworth Daily Commercial, 12 Sept., 4/4.
| The that city [Leavenworth] of note and size and worth, | |
| This wonderful, thunderful train goes forth. |
1893. G. Meredith, Day of Daughter of Hades, ix., in Poems & Lyrics, etc., 54.
| As of legions of thunderful horse | |
| Broken loose and in line tramping hard. |
1910. Westm. Gaz. (weekly ed.), 30 April, 6/3. As clouds that are thunderful.
