thunderstrikingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

thunderstriking (comparative more thunderstriking, superlative most thunderstriking)

1. (まれに) Causing great amazement or shock.

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

   • 1797, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Family Secrets: Literary and Domestic, London: T.N. Longman, Volume 3, Chapter 19, p. 176,^[1]

     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, Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography, New York: Knopf, Chapter 9, pp. 238-239,^[2]

     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.