Word Meanings - ROAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically: To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast. Roaring bulls he would him make to tame. Spenser. To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger. Sole on the barren sands,

Additional info about word: ROAR

1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically: To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast. Roaring bulls he would him make to tame. Spenser. To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger. Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief. Dryden. He scorned to roar under the impressions of a finite anger. South. 2. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like. The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar. Milton. How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar. Gay. 3. To be boisterous; to be disorderly. It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance. Bp. Burnet. 4. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes. 5. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2. Roaring boy, a roaring, noisy fellow; -- name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. "Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split." Beau & Fl. -- Roaring forties , a sailor's name for the stormy tract of ocean between 40º and 50º north latitude.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROAR)

• Bawl
• Shout
• vociferate
• halloo
• roar
• bellow
• Brawl
• Wrangle
• broil
• scold
• shout
• Fulminate
• Thunder
• clamor
• denounce

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ROAR)

• Be silent
• speak low

Related words: (words related to ROAR)

• WRANGLE
  An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• DENOUNCE
  denunciare; de- + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, nuntius a 1. To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim . Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx.
• SCOLDINGLY
  In a scolding manner.
• THUNDERING
  1. Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull. 2. Very great; -- often adverbially. -- Thun"der*ing*ly, adv.
• BELLOWS
  An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the
• BRAWLING
  1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. 2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp.
• SHOUT
  1. To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name. 2. To treat with shouts or clamor. Bp. Hall.
• THUNDERER
  One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter. That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer. Pope.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• SILENTIARY
  One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
• THUNDERY
  Accompanied with thunder; thunderous. "Thundery weather." Pennant.
• THUNDERSTONE
  A belemnite. See Belemnite. (more info) 1. A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone. Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone. Shak.
• BELLOW
  bellen, and perh. to L. flere to weep, OSlav. bleja to bleat, Lith. 1. To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull. 2. To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor. Dryden. 3. To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud,
• THUNDERCLOUD
  A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.
• BROILING
  Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. -- n.
• DISEMBROIL
  To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
• REBELLOW
  To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• UPTHUNDER
  To send up a noise like thunder. Coleridge.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• FORSPEAK
  1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
• WASHOUT
  The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.
• NEISHOUT
  The mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.