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Raring vs Roaring - What's the difference?

raring | roaring |

As adjectives the difference between raring and roaring

is that raring is eager while roaring is very; intensively; extremely.

As a verb roaring is

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As a noun roaring is

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

raring

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Eager.
    • I'm ready and raring to go; I can hardly wait to get there.
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    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.