boomy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "c. 1880s, 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, […] ."
- "A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now."
- "Even in boomier times, the flexibility that leasing provides has become increasingly important to companies."
Etymology
From boom + -y.