roaring

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːrɪŋ

Adjective

roaring

1. Intensive; extreme.
   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎:

     “ […] 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. […] ”

2. Very successful; lively

   Synonyms: thriving, prosperous, bustling

   • 1903, Robert Barr, The O'Ruddy Chapter 17

     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.

Verb

roaring

1. present participle of roar

Noun

roaring (plural roarings)

1. A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.
2. An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.