boomy
Americanadjective
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excessively resonant.
a loudspeaker with a boomy sound in the lower register.
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affected by, characterized by, or indicative of an economic boom.
Etymology
Origin of boomy
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It created a bit of whiplash, perhaps exacerbated by the fact that Climate Pledge couldn’t escape the boomy, washed-out acoustics created by its cavernous confines.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
A full drum kit toward the rear of the stage overwhelmed the room with its boomy kick, its volume urging everything else around it upward into rock show territory.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2023
Lamar also knew that the crispness of his rapping, which on record is essential to the complexity of his storytelling, was sure to be lost in the boomy acoustics of a basketball arena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
“Pink Venom,” the first single from its second album, “Born Pink,” has traditional Korean instruments, old-school rap, boomy EDM beats and boasts about their stuff going “straight to your dome like whoa, whoa, whoa.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
Mr. Chris asked in his big boomy voice.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
Plesko, being at the Department of Energy, also studies the boomier menu choice: a “nuclear standoff burst.”
From Scientific American ● May 27, 2021
In the words of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, "the boom just got boomier."
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2011
He was speaking from the literary gathering at Cheltenham, which gave the programme a boomier sound than usual and a live audience.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2010
Another setting is designed for gamers, making explosions boomier and ray guns zappier.
From Time Magazine Archive
Biggs disapproves of the still prevalent nineteen century fashion, which called for ever bigger and boomier organs, trying to compete with the symphony orchestra.
From Time Magazine Archive
Richard Donner had the biggest, boomiest voice you could imagine.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2021
“Richard Donner had the biggest, boomiest voice you could imagine,” Astin wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2021
“This case of the zooms will require some VROOMS! The roomiest, doomiest, boomiest vrooms! A plane that makes vrooms is the cure for the zooms!”
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2020
Tacoma was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
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