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Roaring vs Thundering - What's the difference?

roaring | thundering |

As adjectives the difference between roaring and thundering

is that roaring is very; intensively; extremely while thundering is of, pertaining to, or accompanied by thunder.

As verbs the difference between roaring and thundering

is that roaring is while thundering is .

As nouns the difference between roaring and thundering

is that roaring is a loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar while thundering is (archaic) thunderstorm.

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.
  • thundering

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by thunder.
  • Producing a noise or effect like thunder; thunderous
  • Very great; extraordinary.
  • A thundering amount of work
  • Awesomely great, intense, or unusual.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) thunderstorm