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Deafening vs Thundering - What's the difference?

deafening | thundering |

As adjectives the difference between deafening and thundering

is that deafening is loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss while thundering is of, pertaining to, or accompanied by thunder.

As verbs the difference between deafening and thundering

is that deafening is while thundering is .

As nouns the difference between deafening and thundering

is that deafening is (architecture) pugging while thundering is (archaic) thunderstorm.

deafening

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • loud enough to cause temporary or permanent hearing loss
  • Very loud
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.}}

    Related terms

    * deaf * deafen * deafening silence

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • (architecture) pugging

    • thundering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by thunder.
  • Producing a noise or effect like thunder; thunderous
  • Very great; extraordinary.
    • A thundering amount of work
  • Awesomely great, intense, or unusual.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) thunderstorm