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Roaring vs Screaming - What's the difference?

roaring | screaming |

As adjectives the difference between roaring and screaming

is that roaring is very; intensively; extremely while screaming is loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.

As verbs the difference between roaring and screaming

is that roaring is while screaming is .

As a noun roaring

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

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.

    • screaming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.
  • Obvious; distinct.
  • (LGBT, slang) Effeminate, flamboyant or otherwise obviously gay.
    • Did you see that guy at the bar? Screaming !

    Synonyms

    * screeching * shrieking

    Derived terms

    * no screaming hell * screamingest * screamingly