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Roaring vs Booming - What's the difference?

roaring | booming |

As adjectives the difference between roaring and booming

is that roaring is very; intensively; extremely while booming is experiencing a period of prosperity, or rapid economic growth.

As verbs the difference between roaring and booming

is that roaring is present participle of lang=en while booming is present participle of lang= en.

As nouns the difference between roaring and booming

is that roaring is a loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar while booming is the act of producing a hollow or roaring sound.

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.

    • booming

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Experiencing a period of prosperity, or rapid economic growth.
    • The power of China's booming economy continues to stun the world.
  • Loud and resonant.
    • He was asked to be MC at the function on account of his booming voice.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound.
  • * Felicia Hemans
    • Heavy boomings of a dull deep bell.