Boomable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of or subject to booming not-comparable

    "a boomable industry"

  2. 2
    Capable of being supported by a boom not-comparable

    "a boomable microphone"

Example

More examples

"Anything was boomable enough when nothing else was more so: the author of the "rotten" book, the beauty who was no beauty, the heiress who was only that, the stranger who was for the most part saved from being inconveniently strange but by being inconveniently familiar, the American whose Americanism had been long desperately discounted, the creature in fine as to whom spangles or spots of any sufficiently marked and applied sort could be loudly enough predictated."

Etymology

From boom + -able.

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