Roaring

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Very lively or successful; thriving: a roaring trade.
  • adj. Used as an intensive: roaring drunk.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Very; intensively; extremely.
  • adj. Very successful; lively; profitable; thriving; prosperous.
  • v. Present participle of roar.
  • n. A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.
  • n. An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation.
  • n. An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A loud, deep cry, as of a lion; an outcry of distress, anger, applause, boisterous mirth, or the like; loud continued sound, as of the billows of the sea or of a tempest.
  • n. A disease of horses which causes them to make a singular noise in breathing under exertion; the act of making the noise so caused; also, this noise.
  • Making or characterized by a noise or disturbance; disorderly; riotous.
  • Going briskly; highly successful.
  • A kind of humming-top.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • ad. extremely
  • n. a deep prolonged loud noise
  • adj. very lively and profitable
  • n. a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
  • Equivalent
    successful   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    noise    call    yell    vociferation    shout    cry    outcry   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    roar   
    Verb Stem
    roar   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adoring    boring    deploring    exploring    flooring    goring    ignoring    imploring    loring    outpouring