Synonyms of thumping

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thumping 1 of 3

adverb

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as in damn

to a great degree

wrote several thumping big books on World War II

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damn
• damned
• extremely
• very
• terribly
• incredibly
• too
• badly
• jolly
• full
• roaring
• that
• desperately
• rattling
• so
• highly
• whacking
• cracking
• real
• wildly
• severely
• really
• super
• mighty
• seriously
• far
• passing
• heavily
• exceeding
• especially
• intensely
• spanking
• much
• stinking
• fiercely
• greatly
• most
• sore
• way
• filthy
• such
• wicked
• almighty
• particularly
• bone
• good and
• awful
• exceptionally
• dang
• extra
• awfully
• monstrous
• deadly
• corking
• fantastically
• absolutely
• beastly
• exceedingly
• a lot
• achingly
• fabulously
• specially
• immensely
• hugely
• supremely
• roaringly
• unco
• frightfully
• uncommonly
• eminently
• totally
• vitally
• utterly
• thoroughly
• blisteringly
• mortally
• sorely
• surpassingly
• archly
• remarkably
• positively
• mightily
• completely
• enormously
• right
• deeply
• vastly
• majorly
• as all get-out
• visibly
• ever
• entirely
• downright
• noticeably
• colossally
• significantly
• wholly
• considerably
• fully
• purely
• notably
• radically
• substantially
• obviously
• profoundly
• discernibly
• palpably
• flat-out
• markedly
• extensively
• plainly
• altogether
• obscenely
• excessively
• plentifully
• appreciably
• monumentally
• grandly
• monstrously
• abundantly
• astonishingly
• astronomically
• overmuch
• staggeringly
• amazingly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• little
• slightly
• somewhat
• nominally
• just
• barely
• negligibly
• hardly
• scarcely
• marginally
• scantily
• minimally
• meagerly

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• little
• slightly
• somewhat
• nominally
• just
• barely
• negligibly
• hardly
• scarcely
• marginally
• scantily
• minimally
• meagerly

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thumping

2 of 3

noun

as in pounding

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pounding
• hammering
• thrashing
• beating
• smashing
• pummeling
• whipping
• bludgeoning
• walloping
• bashing
• battering
• drubbing
• flogging
• belting
• clubbing
• mauling
• pummelling
• licking
• attack
• assault
• pelting
• socking
• paddling
• whaling
• buffeting
• cudgeling
• cudgelling
• batting
• tromping
• hurt
• injury
• harm
• onslaught
• detriment
• damage
• battery
• riot
• shock
• lacing
• frenzy
• revolt
• threat
• terror
• pommelling
• impairment
• fury
• rampage
• turbulence
• rupture
• upheaval
• pommeling
• paroxysm
• outrage
• tumult
• rage
• outbreak
• bulldozing
• uproar
• savagery
• browbeating
• brutality
• hectoring
• barbarity
• storm
• bullying
• violence
• foul play
• crippling
• mayhem
• maiming
• mutilation
• strong-arming
• force

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pacifism
• pacificism
• nonviolence

• pacifism
• pacificism
• nonviolence

thumping

3 of 3

verb

present participle of thump

1

as in banging

to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner

thumped the desk with his hand as he delivered his speech

Synonyms & Similar Words

• banging
• smacking
• slapping
• knocking
• pounding
• slamming
• hitting
• punching
• clapping
• whacking
• striking
• cracking
• clipping
• swiping
• hammering
• kicking
• tapping
• bashing
• batting
• bopping
• thwacking
• jabbing
• bludgeoning
• nailing
• clobbering
• bobbing
• pushing
• shoving
• walloping
• flicking
• poking
• licking
• swatting
• slugging
• smiting
• zapping
• bumping
• rapping
• belting
• chopping
• boxing
• stabbing
• bonking
• socking
• busting
• slogging
• stroking
• clocking
• biffing
• beating
• clouting
• whaling
• pummeling
• pasting
• tagging
• battering
• mauling
• drubbing
• pummelling
• peppering
• mangling
• scuffing
• stamping
• slashing
• lashing
• thrashing
• hanging one on
• pelting
• whipping
• jostling
• buffeting
• dumping
• prodding
• cuffing
• lambasting
• butting
• flailing
• roughing
• bunging
• clubbing
• flogging
• bunting
• pommelling
• switching
• creaming
• kneeing
• spearing
• felling
• sapping
• lacing
• pommeling
• sledgehammering
• flooring
• knocking down
• decking
• cudgeling
• caning
• conking
• cudgelling
• sucker punching
• leveling
• skulling
• sledging
• braining
• levelling
• rabbit-punching
• beaning
• bowling (down or over)

2

as in licking

to strike repeatedly

playfully knocked his younger brother down and began to thump him with a foam bat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pounding
• licking
• beating
• lashing
• whipping
• hiding
• knocking
• slapping
• battering
• smashing
• slamming
• hitting
• pelting
• punching
• attacking
• hammering
• spanking
• thrashing
• pummeling
• doing
• mauling
• smacking
• bashing
• bludgeoning
• batting
• chopping
• assaulting
• whacking
• walloping
• drubbing
• clubbing
• pummelling
• storming
• belting
• flogging
• paddling
• whupping
• slogging
• switching
• whopping
• raiding
• whapping
• buffeting
• thwacking
• cracking
• whaling
• working over
• punching out
• lambasting
• swiping
• lathering
• boxing
• tromping
• tanning
• threshing
• slating
• currying
• fibbing
• basting
• beating up on
• clobbering
• birching
• rushing
• pommelling
• belaboring
• swatting
• wounding
• lacing
• pommeling
• strapping
• whomping
• socking
• bunging up
• lamming
• busting
• assailing
• whamming
• pasting
• clouting
• cudgeling
• cuffing
• messing (up)
• cudgelling
• roughing (up)
• lacerating
• laying on
• caning
• flagellating
• leathering
• besetting
• scourging
• mangling
• goring
• maiming
• pistol-whipping
• blackjacking
• horsewhipping
• mutilating
• descending (on or upon)
• fustigating
• jumping (on)
• pouncing (on or upon)
• cowhiding
• rawhiding