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. Schopenhauer:

   What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

2. Asra Nomani:

   Parents in Virginia are very real mama bears and papa bears expressing a mighty roar for their cubs, they are not some kind of circus animal doing tricks for a master of ceremonies.

3. Thomas Fuller:

   Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

4. John Aish:

   I'd say, like a hurricane. Just bloody quick and, just hard to describe, the noise was just like a bloody jet, jet engine like just got louder and louder and, just the roar of the wind and that sort of thing.

5. Frederick Douglass:

   If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

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