Howling

ahd-5
  • adjective. Marked by the sound of howling.
  • adjective. Desolate; dreary.
  • adjective. Very great; tremendous.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Filled with howling beasts or dismal sounds.
  • Very “loud”; intense: as, a howling swell.
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  • noun. The act of producing howls.
  • verb. Present participle of howl.
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  • noun. a long loud emotional utterance
  • adjective. extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers
    • Word Usage
    "_howling_ dervishes; all our religion consisted in howling like jackals or hyenas, with all our might, until we fell down in real or pretended convulsions."
    cross-reference
    howling dervish  
    Equivalent
    extraordinary  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    utterance  vocalization  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    cowling  fouling  prowling  scowling  toweling  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Jeremianic  abandoned  acute  amok  animal noise  
    verb-stem
    howl  
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