roar

roar is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound.
2. intransitive verb. To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast.
3. intransitive verb. To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger.
4. intransitive verb. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like.
5. intransitive verb. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
6. intransitive verb. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes.
7. intransitive verb. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2.
8. transitive verb. To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
9. noun. The sound of roaring.
10. noun. The deep, loud cry of a wild beast; as, the roar of a lion.
11. noun. The cry of one in pain, distress, anger, or the like.
12. noun. A loud, continuous, and confused sound; as, the roar of a cannon, of the wind, or the waves; the roar of ocean.
13. noun. A boisterous outcry or shouting, as in mirth.
14. noun. a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)

    "his bellow filled the hallway"

    Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roaring, yowl

15. noun. a deep prolonged loud noise

    Synonyms: boom, roaring, thunder

16. noun. the sound made by a lion
17. verb. laugh unrestrainedly and heartily

    Synonyms: howl

18. verb. utter words loudly and forcefully

    "`Get out of here,' he roared"

    Synonyms: thunder

19. verb. make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles

    "The wind was howling in the trees"

    "The water roared down the chute"

    Synonyms: howl

20. verb. emit long loud cries

    "wail in self-pity"

    "howl with sorrow"

    Synonyms: howl, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl

21. verb. make a loud noise, as of animal

    "The bull bellowed"

    Synonyms: bellow

22. verb. act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way-R.A.Billington

    "desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town"

Synonyms

bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roaring, yowl, boom, thunder, howl, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in roar:

orra

Common word forms

roars, roared, roarer, roaring

Words from these letters

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