thunderstriking

English

Verb

thunderstriking

1. present participle and gerund of thunderstrike

Adjective

thunderstriking (comparative more thunderstriking, superlative most thunderstriking)

1. (rare) Causing great amazement or shock.

   Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, devastating, mind-blowing, stupefying

   • 1797, Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 19, in Family Secrets: Literary and Domestic‎^[1], volume 3, London: T.N. Longman, page 176:

     He then took shelter from the rage that might be expected to follow such thunder-striking intelligence under the bed clothes,

   • 2002, William Lee Miller, chapter 9, in Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography‎^[2], New York: Knopf, pages 238–239:

     The opening of territory to slavery […] was the arousing, astounding, thunderstriking event that brought Lincoln back into politics and lifted him to a new level of public moral argument.

Translations

causing great amazement or shock

• French: foudroyant (fr)