roaring
Syllables: roar·ing/ˈɹɔːɹɪŋ/
roaring adjective: intensive; extreme. Also the present participle and gerund of roar.
Adjective
roaring
- Intensive; extreme.
- “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
- “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
- Very successful; lively.
- The ice-cream sellers did a roaring trade in the midday heat.
- But finally we came to a river with hundreds of boats upon it, and there was a magnificent bridge, and on the other bank was a roaring city, and through the fog the rain came down thick as the tears of the angels. "That 's London," said I.1903, Robert Barr, chapter 17, in The O'Ruddy
- Synonyms:
- thriving, prosperous, bustling, flourishing, fortunate, lucky, privileged, successful, wealful
Noun
roaring (countable and uncountable, plural roarings)
- A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.
- […] those wild eyes that watch the wave
In roarings round the coral reef.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 56
- […] those wild eyes that watch the wave
- An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.
Also used as
roaring is also the present participle and gerund of roar.
roaring meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
roaring in Urdu
- گرجتے ہوئے
roaring in Bengali
- গর্জন করে, গর্জন করছে
roaring in Telugu
- గర్జించడం, గర్జిస్తూ
roaring in Malayalam
- a loud, deep, prolonged sound
- ഗർജനം gaṟjanaṁ, അലർച്ച alaṟcca
More languagesFewer languages
- roaring in Gujarati
- ગર્જના કરવી
- roaring in Nepali
- गर्जना गर्दै
Examples of roaring in a sentence
- It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.
- The car engine coughed temperamentally before roaring into life.
- The cook's assistant, who was called the cookee, made a roaring fire in the stove.
Synonyms of roaring
Forms of roaring
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | roarin' |
| Noun | |
| plural | roarings |
Origin of roaring
By surface analysis, roar + -ing.
Words formed from roaring
Phrases with roaring
- roaring off
- roaring out
- died roaring
- dies roaring
- roaring away
- roaring back
- roaring boys
- Roaring Megs
- dying roaring
- roaring ahead
- roaring successes
- die roaring for a priest
3 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with roaring
Questions about roaring
- What does roaring mean?
- Roaring means intensive; extreme.
- What is roaring in Urdu?
- Roaring in Urdu is گرجتے ہوئے. See Roaring meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is roaring?
- Roaring can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce roaring?
- Roaring is pronounced /ˈɹɔːɹɪŋ/.
Words near roaring in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: roaring (page history and authors); roaring (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roaring (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roaring (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roaring (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); roaring (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-roaring.wav.
Cite this entry: “roaring.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/roaring. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.