boomable
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]boomable (not comparable)
- Capable of or subject to booming
- a boomable industry
- 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
- 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.
- Capable of being supported by a boom
- a boomable microphone