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Roomy vs Boomy - What's the difference?

roomy | boomy |

As adjectives the difference between roomy and boomy

is that roomy is spacious, expansive, comfortable while boomy is characterized by heavy bass sounds.

roomy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Spacious, expansive, comfortable.
  • Our new apartment is roomy enough to accommodate all our furniture.
  • * 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.
  • boomy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Characterized by heavy bass sounds.
  • * 1999 , Jon Chappell, The Recording Guitarist: A Guide for Home and Studio , page 54,
  • If you're miking a boomy acoustic, the proximity effect can work against you, but having it on a thin-sounding arch-top can work for you.
  • * 2007 , Gary Gottlieb, Shaping Sound in the Studio and Beyond: Audio Aesthetics and Technology , page 250,
  • As an airliner approaches you from a long way off, the sound is first heard as rumble, and, as it get closer and then directly overhead, the sound becomes increasingly boomier .
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 26, author=Allan Kozinn, title=In Precise Movements, a Russian Sense of Drama, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=For the third movement Mr. Safronov had Schubert’s piano sketch as a guide, but his big, boomy orchestration, with a gentle pastoral trio at its core, sounded jarring after the first two movements.}}
  • Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc.
  • * Rudyard Kipling, quoted in 1992 , John William Reps, The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States , page 412,
  • Tacoma was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest . I do not quite remember what her natural resources were supposed to be,.
  • * 1903 , Mining Magazine: An International Monthly Review of Current Progress in Mining and Metallurgy , Volume 7, page 132,
  • A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now.
  • * 1979 , Business Week , Issues 2592-2600, page 72,
  • Even in boomier times, the flexibility that leasing provides has become increasingly important to companies.