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tonitruant

tonitruant adjective: thundering.

Adjective

tonitruant (comparative more tonitruant, superlative most tonitruant)

  1. thundering

Forms of tonitruant

comparativemore tonitruant
superlativemost tonitruant

Origin of tonitruant

From Latin tonitruāns, present participle of tonitruō (“to thunder”), from Latin tonitrus (“thunder”) + -ant.

Questions about tonitruant

What does tonitruant mean?
Tonitruant means thundering.
What part of speech is tonitruant?
Tonitruant is an adjective.

Words near tonitruant in the dictionary

  1. tonish
  2. tonishly
  3. tonishness
  4. tonite
  5. tonitrophobia
  6. tonitruant
  7. tonitruate
  8. tonitruated
  9. tonitruates
  10. tonitruating
  11. tonitruous

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