thumping
Loud rhythmic striking
Thumping describes something that makes a heavy, dull, rhythmic sound, like a heartbeat or footsteps on stairs.
As an adjective, it intensifies to mean impressively large or emphatic: a thumping majority, a thumping headache, a thumping great lie.
This emphatic sense is more common in British English.
The word can also function as a noun for the sound itself or the act of delivering blows: The team took a thumping in the finals.
Forceful repeated striking
- thuddingMaking dull impacts
- drummingPercussive rhythm-making
- boomingExperiencing rapid growth
- beatingRepeated striking or pulsing
banging · knocking · rumbling · throbbing · stomping · slamming · clunking · whomping
Extremely large or great
- enormousExtremely large in scale
- massiveExtremely large and heavy
- hugeExtremely large in size
- greatLarge or excellent
resounding · thundering · almighty · tremendous · colossal · hefty · sizeable · considerable
Forceful repeated striking
- racingSpeed competition sport
- beatingRepeated striking or pulsing
- pulsingBeating with rhythm
- throbbingRhythmic painful pulsing
hammering · fluttering · galloping · palpitating · pulse · heart · chest · adrenaline
Deep pitch or fish
- beatRhythmic pulse or strike
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- pulseArterial blood throb
- percussionSound through impact
drum · kick · subwoofer · club · dancefloor · techno · house · electronic
Decisive, lopsided defeat
- trouncingOverwhelming defeat
- shellackingCrushing, lopsided defeat
- routOverwhelming one-sided victory
- thrashingDecisive, lopsided defeat
walloping · beating · crushing · pummeling · hammering · demolishing · annihilation · whitewash
pounding
Forceful repeated striking
beating · banging · knocking · rumbling · throbbing · stomping · slamming · clunking · whomping · resonating
whopping
Extremely large or great
great · resounding · thundering · almighty · tremendous · colossal · hefty · sizeable · considerable · substantial
pounding
Forceful repeated striking
throbbing · hammering · fluttering · galloping · palpitating · pulse · heart · chest · adrenaline · anxiety
bass
Deep pitch or fish
percussion · drum · kick · subwoofer · club · dancefloor · techno · house · electronic · DJ
drubbing
Decisive, lopsided defeat
- trouncingOverwhelming defeat
- shellackingCrushing, lopsided defeat
- routOverwhelming one-sided victory
thrashing · walloping · beating · crushing · pummeling · hammering · demolishing · annihilation · whitewash · landslide
- repeated hitspunches, jabs, drumming, hammering, pounding
- machine soundshumming, buzzing, whirring, clanking, grinding
- guitar techniquesshredding, fingerpicking, bends, arpeggios, hammer-on
- heart actionsbeating, pumping, pulsing, throbbing, racing
- heart sensationspalpitation, palpitations, flutter, fluttering, heart flutter
- thrashingsbeatings, drubbings, thrashings, whippings, floggings
thumpingtiny
Extremely small in size
small · minuscule · insignificant · negligible · trivial
- chest thumpingShowy self-aggrandizement