Word.ws English Dictionary

roary

roary adjective: resembling or characteristic of a roaring sound.

Adjective

roary (comparative more roary, superlative most roary)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a roaring sound.
    • “What are you doing on my island?” the lion shouted in a roary kind of voice.2019, Manon Massari, Lucy's Dreams, page 15

Forms of roary

comparativemore roary
superlativemost roary

Origin of roary

From roar + -y.

Questions about roary

What does roary mean?
Roary means resembling or characteristic of a roaring sound.
What part of speech is roary?
Roary is an adjective.

Words near roary in the dictionary

  1. roars off
  2. roars on
  3. roars out
  4. roarsome
  5. Roarty
  6. roary
  7. ROAS
  8. roast
  9. roast beef
  10. roast beef curtains
  11. roast beefs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: roary (page history and authors). 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:

Cite this entry: “roary.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/roary. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.