Word.ws English Dictionary

thunderstormy

thunderstormy adjective: characterised by thunderstorms.

Adjective

thunderstormy (comparative more thunderstormy, superlative most thunderstormy)

  1. Characterised by thunderstorms.
    • It was a thunderstormy morning, eleven o'clock, with great dashes of rain pounding against the windows.1973, Jane Roberts, The education of Oversoul Seven, page 8

Forms of thunderstormy

comparativemore thunderstormy
superlativemost thunderstormy

Origin of thunderstormy

From thunderstorm + -y.

Questions about thunderstormy

What does thunderstormy mean?
Thunderstormy means characterised by thunderstorms.
What part of speech is thunderstormy?
Thunderstormy is an adjective.

Words near thunderstormy in the dictionary

  1. thunderstone
  2. thunderstones
  3. thunderstorm
  4. thunderstorm asthma
  5. thunderstorms
  6. thunderstormy
  7. thunderstricken
  8. thunderstrike
  9. thunderstrikes
  10. thunderstriking
  11. thunderstroke

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thunderstormy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “thunderstormy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thunderstormy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.