BOOMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does booming mean? 

• BOOMING (adjective)
  The adjective BOOMING has 2 senses:

1. very lively and profitable

2. (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant

  Familiarity information: BOOMING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very lively and profitable

Synonyms:

booming; flourishing; palmy; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thriving

Context example:

did a thriving business in orchids

Similar:

successful (having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant

Synonyms:

booming; stentorian

Similar:

full ((of sound) having marked deepness and body)

 Context examples 

Partridges and woodpeckers were booming and knocking in the forest.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A little after midnight came a strange sound from over the sea, and high overhead the air began to carry a strange, faint, hollow booming.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"The first-fruits of our labors," said Challenger in his booming, pedantic fashion.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was not a breath of air moving, nor a sound but that of the surf booming half a mile away along the beaches and against the rocks outside.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

These crevices could be such a good octopus environment that the booming population is forced to spill over into the dangerously warm region outside.

(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)

It was a common sound in those parts—as common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It reminded me of the great hoot-owl, listening, after its booming cry, for the stir of its frightened prey.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Undulating hills were changed to valleys, undulating valleys (with a solitary storm-bird sometimes skimming through them) were lifted up to hills; masses of water shivered and shook the beach with a booming sound; every shape tumultuously rolled on, as soon as made, to change its shape and place, and beat another shape and place away; the ideal shore on the horizon, with its towers and buildings, rose and fell; the clouds fell fast and thick; I seemed to see a rending and upheaving of all nature.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Balch suspects that booming coccolithophore populations in the Southern Ocean are depleting the water layer's nutrient supply and altering its chemistry — potentially making the water inhospitable to coccolithophores by the time it reaches the equator.

(Study reveals changing patterns in globally important algae, National Science Foundation)

We stood near the edge peering down at the gleam of the breaking water far below us against the black rocks, and listening to the half-human shout which came booming up with the spray out of the abyss.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)