Roomier vs Zoomier - What's the difference?
roomier | zoomier |
(roomy)
Spacious, expansive, comfortable.
* 2013 Dec. 22, Jad Mouawad and Martha C. White, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/business/on-jammed-jets-sardines-turn-on-one-another.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 23 December 2013):
*:Over the last two decades, the space between seats — hardly roomy before — has fallen about 10 percent, from 34 inches to somewhere between 30 and 32 inches. Today, some airlines are pushing it even further, leaving only a knee-crunching 28 inches.
(zoomy)
(childish) of something that goes zoom!
*{{quote-book
, title=Househusband
, author=Ad Hudler
, year=2004
, page=284
, passage=We play a game she calls zoomy rocket, which usually draws some nasty maternal stares.}}
*{{quote-journal
, journal=Kiplinger's Personal Finance?
, year=Dec 1970
, volume=24
, number=12
, page=6
, passage=Zoomy little race cars
(mechanics) of something that looks like it would go zoom: sleek, speedy, streamlined
:zoomy but faded paint jobs
*{{quote-journal
, journal=Popular Mechanics
, year=May 1992
, page=39
, passage=In our recent visits to the Frankfurt and Tokyo auto shows, we saw the zoomy shapes we expect at major shows.}}
*{{quote-journal
, journal=Car and Driver
, year=2007
, page=59
, volume=52
, passage=Does the zoomy new look of the TT [automobile] equate with a corresponding improvement in performance?}}
(slang) Stylish, as a zoomy car, or as someone who looks like they would drive a zoomy car
*{{quote-book
, title=The circle home
, author=Edward Hoagland
, year=1960
, page=191
, passage=He caught a downtown bus and felt real good, real zoomy . }}
*{{quote-book
, title=Getting into fashion
, author=Melissa Sones
, year=1984
, page=237
, passage=Her "mod zoomy' little showcases," as she describes her boutiques, are as mod and ' zoomy as Johnson herself.}}
(photography) Obviously characteristic of a zoom lens
:relies upon zoomy close-ups
:wobbly, zoomy , headachey shots
*{{quote-journal
, journal=American anthropologist
, year=1977
, volume=79
, page=760
, passage=However, the photography is at moments too poorly exposed, too zoomy , and the camera positioned too closely, for the footage to be useful}}
As adjectives the difference between roomier and zoomier
is that roomier is (roomy) while zoomier is (zoomy).roomier
English
Adjective
(head)roomy
English
Adjective
(er)- Our new apartment is roomy enough to accommodate all our furniture.