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 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. 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

Other Word Forms

• roaringly 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

There’s a roaring in my ears as I soar through the air.

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One could scarcely see past all the crowns, roses, shamrocks, halos, piles of gold, angel wings, laurel leaves, roaring lions—the list went on and on.

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Now, it’s roaring back to those levels and is possibly on pace to surpass them.

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It’s been a bullish start to the week on Wall Street, with stocks roaring higher Monday on optimism about a potential deal to end the longest government shutdown in history.

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It’s been a bullish start to the week on Wall Street, with stocks roaring higher Monday on optimism about a potential deal to end the longest government shutdown in history.

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Related Words

• boisterous 
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• clamorous 
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• deafening 
• earsplitting 
• raucous 
• resounding 
• ringing www.thesaurus.com
• rowdy 
• thundering 
• tumultuous 
• turbulent