boomy

English

Etymology

boom +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːmi

Adjective

boomy (comparative boomier, superlative boomiest)

1. Characterized by heavy bass sounds.
   • 1999, Jon Chappell, The Recording Guitarist: A Guide for Home and Studio‎^[1], page 54:

     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.

   • 2007, Gary Gottlieb, Shaping Sound in the Studio and Beyond: Audio Aesthetics and Technology‎^[2], page 250:

     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.

   • 2008 February 26, Allan Kozinn, “In Precise Movements, a Russian Sense of Drama”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

     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. 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, […] .

   • 1903, Mining Magazine: An International Monthly Review of Current Progress in Mining and Metallurgy, volume 7, page 132:

     A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now.

   • 1979, Business Week, numbers 2592-2600, page 72:

     Even in boomier times, the flexibility that leasing provides has become increasingly important to companies.