'Booming' definitions:
Definition of 'booming'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids" [syn: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving]
adjective
Used of the voice [syn: booming, stentorian]
Definition of 'Booming'
From: GCIDE
- Boom \Boom\ (b[=oo]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boomed, p. pr. & vb. n. Booming.] [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W. bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. Bum, Bump, v. i., Bomb, v. i.]
- 1. To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. [1913 Webster]
- At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. [1913 Webster]
- Alarm guns booming through the night air. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. [1913 Webster]
- She comes booming down before it. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Booming'
From: GCIDE
- Booming \Boom"ing\, a.
- 1. Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. [1913 Webster]
- O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. --Falcone. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity. [Colloq. U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Booming'
From: GCIDE
- Booming \Boom"ing\, n. The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns. --Howitt. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'booming'
From: GCIDE
- Hushing \Hush"ing\, n. (Mining) The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming and hydraulic mining. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Synonyms of 'booming'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- balmy,
- birring,
- blooming,
- blossoming,
- bombilation,
- bombinating,
- bombination,
- boom,
- burring,
- buzzing,
- cannonade,
- cannonading,
- clear,
- deafening,
- droning,
- ear-piercing,
- ear-rending,
- ear-splitting,
- earthshaking,
- echo,
- echoic,
- echoing,
- exuberant,
- fair,
- fat,
- flourishing,
- flowering,
- forte,
- fortissimo,
- fruiting,
- full,
- fulminating,
- going strong,
- growl,
- growling,
- grumble,
- grumbling,
- halcyon,
- hum,
- humming,
- in full swing,
- in good case,
- lingering,
- loud,
- loud-sounding,
- loudish,
- low rumbling,
- palmy,
- peal,
- pealing,
- persistent,
- piercing,
- piping,
- plangent,
- prospering,
- prosperous,
- purring,
- reboant,
- reboation,
- rebound,
- rebounding,
- reecho,
- reechoing,
- repercussive,
- resound,
- resounding,
- reverberant,
- reverberating,
- reverberation,
- reverberatory,
- ringing,
- roar,
- roaring,
- robust,
- roll,
- rolling,
- rosy,
- rumble,
- rumbling,
- sleek,
- sonorous,
- sounding,
- stentoraphonic,
- stentorian,
- stentorious,
- thrifty,
- thriving,
- thrumming,
- thunder,
- thundering,
- thunderlike,
- thunderous,
- thundery,
- tonitruant,
- tonitruous,
- undamped,
- vigorous,
- volleying,
- whirring,
- whizzing,
- window-rattling