boomy

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Definition of boomy

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (informal)Characterized by heavy bass sounds.
    “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.”
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adj

  1. (informal)Characterized by heavy bass sounds.
    “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.”
  2. (informal)Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc.
    “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.”
  3. (informal)That booms.
    “Pupil of Earth stinky-dome three-dimensions planet have only short time to throw off mantle of FGREPSTER before big boomy things come falling down and make three dimensions happy place again you betchum.”
    “Annie is frightened by storm fronts and she will relentlessly twine herself between my legs whenever the barometer drops. […] "It's going away. It's okay," I say. OKAY. THANKS, says Annie. OHMYGOD! WHAT WAS THAT BOOMY THING??!? I DON'T LIKE THAT BOOMY THING. OH...YOU SURE? OKAY. THANKS.”
    “I've seen 5000+ shells launched at many shows, - randomly launched pyro to crap like the Offspring, Green Day and Bon Jovi. […] Any schmoe can play some loud Top 40 crap and launch 20 minutes of big boomy things randomly into the sky at random angles.”

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Etymology

From boom + -y.

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