roaring

[ rawr-ing, rohr- ]

noun

1. the act of a person, animal, or thing that roars.
2. a loud, deep cry or sound or a series of such sounds.
3. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, caused by respiratory obstruction or vocal cord paralysis, and characterized by loud or rough breathing sounds.

adjective

1. making or causing a roar, as an animal or thunder.
2. brisk or highly successful, as trade:

   He did a roaring business selling watches to tourists.

3. characterized by noisy, disorderly behavior; boisterous; riotous:

   roaring revelry.

4. complete; utter; out-and-out:

   a roaring idiot; a roaring success.

adverb

1. very; extremely:

   roaring drunk.

roaring

/ ˈrɔːrɪŋ /

adjective

1. informal.
   very brisk and profitable (esp in the phrase a roaring trade )
2. the roaring days
   the roaring days the period of the Australian goldrushes
3. derogatory.
   (intensifier)

   a roaring communist

adverb

1. noisily or boisterously (esp in the phrase roaring drunk )

noun

1. a loud prolonged cry
2. See whistling
   a debilitating breathing defect of horses characterized by rasping sounds with each breath: caused by inflammation of the respiratory tract or obstruction of the larynx Compare whistling

Derived Forms

• ˈroaringly, adverb

Other Words From

• roaring·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of roaring¹

before 1000; Middle English roryng (noun, adj.), Old English rarung (noun). See roar, -ing ¹, -ing ²

Example Sentences

Since securing the GOP nomination at a May convention, Youngkin’s paid media has played down his conservative politics, reintroducing him to voters as a successful businessman and non-politician who’ll create a “rip-roaring economy.”

From Washington Post

We may be headed for a post-pandemic roaring ’20s, but right now the vibe is more 1950s American suburbia.

From Quartz

I am health psychologist who developed a method that harnesses our rip-roaring emotions to rapidly switch off stress and activate positive emotions instead.

From Popular-Science

He gave a rip-roaring and revealing interview to Maureen Dowd of The New York Times.

From Fortune

Bitcoin began 2013 with a roaring price of $770 per unit, and businesses right and left were converting to the ethereal product.

From The Daily Beast

The younger brother would try everything in his power from a distance to subdue the roaring flames of passion.

From The Daily Beast

U.S. warplanes roaring overhead unleashed missiles and precision-guided bombs, but they could do nothing to solve this problem.

From The Daily Beast

Our stereotype of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ is cocaine, nightclubs, and flapper girls.

From The Daily Beast

If the goal was to get 'em talking, last Sunday night's Miss America competition was a roaring success.

From The Daily Beast

Never did I feel leaving anybody or any place so much, and Berlin seems to me like a great roaring wilderness.

From Project Gutenberg

On the other side the ammonia brought out a picture of the Victory, with the head of a roaring lion below it.

From Project Gutenberg

The door banged shut behind him and I heard him at the foot of the stairs roaring "Ho-ho-there-ho!"

From Project Gutenberg

Instantly there rose before him the vision of a black torrent roaring through the tunnel.

From Project Gutenberg

The sound of roaring died away, and an atmosphere of still and utter cold established itself over all.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• boisterous
• booming
• clamorous
• crashing
• deafening
• earsplitting
• raucous
• resounding
• ringing
• rowdy
• thundering
• tumultuous
• turbulent