pelting
adjective
pelt·ing ˈpel-tiŋ 
archaic
: paltry, insignificant
Word History
Etymology
probably from English dialect pelt piece of trash
First Known Use
1540, in the meaning defined above
pelting 1 of 2
noun
as in battering
Synonyms & Similar Words
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- battering
- pummeling
- smashing
- beating
- whipping
- pounding
- hammering
- bashing
- thrashing
- bludgeoning
- walloping
- assault
- attack
- thumping
- belting
- mauling
- licking
- flogging
- buffeting
- pummelling
- paddling
- cudgeling
- tromping
- cudgelling
- socking
- drubbing
- batting
- clubbing
- whaling
- hurt
- harm
- battery
- riot
- onslaught
- injury
- fury
- damage
- lacing
- pommelling
- detriment
- revolt
- turbulence
- frenzy
- threat
- rampage
- pommeling
- rupture
- shock
- upheaval
- terror
- outrage
- impairment
- tumult
- bulldozing
- rage
- storm
- browbeating
- paroxysm
- savagery
- outbreak
- hectoring
- uproar
- bullying
- brutality
- barbarity
- violence
- maiming
- strong-arming
- crippling
- mayhem
- foul play
- mutilation
- force
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- nonviolence
- pacifism
- pacificism
pelting
2 of 2verb
1
as in scurrying
to proceed or move quickly pelted away when the cops arrived Synonyms & Similar Words
- scurrying
- hurrying
- flying
- rushing
- racing
- chasing
- speeding
- driving
- trotting
- traveling
- zipping
- blowing
- blasting
- running
- jumping
- hurling
- darting
- ramming
- buzzing
- travelling
- scooting
- scuttling
- stepping
- tearing
- dashing
- whirling
- ripping
- shooting
- blazing
- hurtling
- bowling
- bolting
- barreling
- rustling
- zooming
- careening
- humping
- careering
- jogging
- rocketing
- hying
- belting
- hustling
- whisking
- breezing
- haring
- coursing
- nipping
- cannonballing
- bundling
- hastening
- bustling
- barrelling
- galloping
- motoring
- bombing
- hieing
- scudding
- jetting
- beating it
- scampering
- highballing
- scuffling
- whizzing
- flitting
- beetling
- stampeding
- sprinting
- making tracks
- stepping on it
- streaking
- shaking a leg
- cracking (on)
- hotfooting (it)
- getting a move on
- outrunning
- accelerating
- overtaking
- outpacing
- arrowing
- outstripping
- stepping out
- quickening
- beelining
- catching up
- fast-forwarding
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- poking
- dragging
- creeping
- crawling
- lingering
- poking
- lagging
- hanging (around or out)
- loitering
- strolling
- shuffling
- dawdling
- ambling
- sauntering
- lumbering
- dallying
- plodding
- tarrying
- decelerating
- dillydallying
- slowing (down or up)
2
as in throwing
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm pelted snowballs at each other while waiting for the bus Synonyms & Similar Words
- throwing
- hurling
- tossing
- flinging
- slinging
- firing
- lobbing
- chucking
- launching
- heaving
- hurtling
- catapulting
- lofting
- bowling
- casting
- darting
- pitching
- pegging
- dashing
- gunning
- rolling
- flipping
- thrusting
- ejecting
- letting fly
- precipitating
- propelling
- projecting
- shooting
- passing
- hooking
- rifling
- bucking
- impelling
3
as in pounding
to strike repeatedly pelted the other kids with pebbles Synonyms & Similar Words
- pounding
- lashing
- licking
- battering
- whipping
- beating
- hiding
- hitting
- slapping
- assaulting
- attacking
- knocking
- smashing
- slamming
- punching
- pummeling
- doing
- thumping
- bashing
- storming
- mauling
- batting
- smacking
- chopping
- hammering
- whacking
- buffeting
- bludgeoning
- spanking
- thrashing
- walloping
- raiding
- lathering
- pummelling
- lambasting
- belting
- paddling
- slogging
- flogging
- slating
- tromping
- switching
- drubbing
- wounding
- tanning
- swiping
- clubbing
- whapping
- assailing
- punching out
- swatting
- thwacking
- boxing
- threshing
- currying
- working over
- whaling
- cracking
- clobbering
- whopping
- rushing
- whupping
- belaboring
- birching
- fibbing
- socking
- pommelling
- basting
- beating up on
- pommeling
- lacing
- strapping
- cudgeling
- clouting
- pasting
- flagellating
- bunging up
- busting
- lacerating
- cudgelling
- cuffing
- lamming
- besetting
- whamming
- scourging
- whomping
- laying on
- caning
- roughing (up)
- horsewhipping
- mutilating
- leathering
- mangling
- messing (up)
- maiming
- pistol-whipping
- goring
- blackjacking
- cowhiding
- rawhiding
- descending (on or upon)
- fustigating
- jumping (on)
- pouncing (on or upon)