THUDDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thudding mean? 

• THUDDING (adjective)
  The adjective THUDDING has 1 sense:

1. not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft

  Familiarity information: THUDDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THUDDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft

Synonyms:

dull; thudding

Context example:

thudding bullets

Similar:

nonresonant; unreverberant (not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate)

 Context examples 

A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then suddenly, with a crashing and a rending, a thudding of giant feet and a panting of monster lungs the beast was upon me once more.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The clink of crossing sword-blades, the dull thudding of heavy blows, the panting and gasping of weary and wounded men, all rose together in a wild, long-drawn note, which swelled upwards to the ears of the wondering peasants who looked down from the edges of the cliffs upon the swaying turmoil of the battle beneath them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hard brown beetles kept thudding against the dull light and whenever Michaelis heard a car go tearing along the road outside it sounded to him like the car that hadn't stopped a few hours before.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)