Antonyms for roar
rɔr, roʊrroar

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1. roarverb

   To call is to send out the voice in order to attract another's attention, either by word or by inarticulate utterance. Animals call their mates, or their young; a man calls his dog, his horse, etc. The sense is extended to include summons by bell, or any signal. To shout is to call or exclaim with the fullest volume of sustained voice; to scream is to utter a shriller cry; to shriek or to yell refers to that which is louder and wilder still. We shout words; in screaming, shrieking, or yelling there is often no attempt at articulation. To bawl is to utter senseless, noisy cries, as of a child in pain or anger. Bellow and roar are applied to the utterances of animals, and only contemptuously to those of persons. To clamor is to utter with noisy iteration; it applies also to the confused cries of a multitude. To vociferate is commonly applied to loud and excited speech where there is little besides the exertion of voice. In exclaiming, the utterance may not be strikingly, tho somewhat, above the ordinary tone and pitch; we may exclaim by mere interjections, or by connected words, but always by some articulate utterance. To ejaculate is to throw out brief, disconnected, but coherent utterances of joy, regret, and especially of appeal, petition, prayer; the use of such devotional utterances has received the special name of "ejaculatory prayer." To cry out is to give forth a louder and more excited utterance than in exclaiming or calling; one often exclaims with sudden joy as well as sorrow; if he cries out, it is oftener in grief or agony. In the most common colloquial usage, to cry is to express grief or pain by weeping or sobbing. One may exclaim, cry out, or ejaculate with no thought of others' presence; when he calls, it is to attract another's attention.

   Antonyms:
   be silent, be still, hark, hearken, hush, list, listen

   Synonyms:
   bawl, bellow, call, clamor, cry (out), ejaculate, exclaim, scream, shout, shriek, vociferate, yell

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1. roar

   Synonyms:
   howl, vociferate, peal, yell, boom, resound

Matched Categories

1. • Laugh
   • Make Noise
   • Noise
   • Proceed
   • Shout
   • Utter

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. boom, roar, roaring, thundernoun

   a deep prolonged loud noise

   Synonyms:
   thunder, microphone boom, nose drops, bellowing, bellow, scag, hollo, gravy, godsend, bonanza, holla, yowl, big H, hell dust, hollering, holler, gold rush, windfall, smack, manna from heaven, bunce, roaring, boom, holloa, skag

2. bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowlnoun

   a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)

   "his bellow filled the hallway"

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

3. roarverb

   the sound made by a lion

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

4. roar, howlverb

   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, thunder, yawl, yaup, wrawl, yowl, bellow, wail, ululate, yammer

5. thunder, roarverb

   utter words loudly and forcefully

   "`Get out of here,' he roared"

   Synonyms:
   howl, thunder, yawl, yaup, boom, bellow, wail, ululate

6. howl, ululate, wail, roar, yawl, yaupverb

   emit long loud cries

   "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow"

   Synonyms:
   howl, whimper, yawl, yaup, wrawl, yowl, yammer, pule, wail, mewl, thunder, ululate, bellow

7. roarverb

   act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way

   "desperadoes from the hills regularly roared in to take over the town"-R.A.Billington

   Synonyms:
   bellow, yawl, thunder, yaup, ululate, wail, howl

8. bellow, roarverb

   make a loud noise, as of animal

   "The bull bellowed"

   Synonyms:
   howl, thunder, yawl, yaup, bawl, bellow, wail, ululate

9. roar, howlverb

   laugh unrestrainedly and heartily

   Synonyms:
   howl, thunder, yawl, yaup, wrawl, yowl, bellow, wail, ululate, yammer

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1. roarnoun

   Synonyms:
   bellow, bellowing

2. roarverb

   Synonyms:
   bellow, boom, peal, resound, thunder

How to use roar in a sentence?

1. John Jackson:

   You can see them, smell them. When they roar the ground shakes. It's like lightning snapping over your head.

2. Setsuko Thurlow:

   People at a distance saw the mushroom cloud and heard a thunderous roar. But I did not see the cloud because I was in it.

3. Mark Clawson:

   It is a near-constant roar akin to a full-throttle 747 interspersed with deafening, earth-shattering explosions that hurtle 100-pound (45-kg) lava bombs 100 feet (30 meters) into the air.

4. Benjamin F Sullivan:

   God is discovered entirely through creation - the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds you hear in the heart of the forest, or the vastness of space and its countless stars. God is the mastermind behind all matter - every earth shattering scientific discovery and mystery that is yet to be unraveled was dreamed and enacted by God.

5. George Eliot:

   If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

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