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Roaring vs Furious - What's the difference?

roaring | furious | Related terms |

Roaring is a related term of furious.


As adjectives the difference between roaring and furious

is that roaring is very; intensively; extremely while furious is transported with passion or fury; raging; violent.

As a verb roaring

is .

As a noun roaring

is a loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.

roaring

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Very; intensively; extremely.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] 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. […]”}}
  • Very successful; lively; profitable; thriving; prosperous.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.
  • An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.
  • furious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.
  • Derived terms

    * fast and furious * furiousness