🔊 Loud and echoing 📈 Growing fast

boomy

1 7.0

Growing quickly and doing very well, especially in business

adjective
/ˈbuːmi/

: en auge

During the boomy years, unemployment rates dropped and wages increased.

Examples

Investors were eager to take advantage of the boomy real estate market.
The boomy tech industry attracted many new startups to the city.
The tech industry is currently boomy.
The economy feels boomier than ever!
The technology sector is experiencing a boomy phase with startups emerging every day.
After the new tax reforms, the local economy became boomy, attracting more investors.
Following the recent innovations, the small business saw a boomy increase in profits and clientele.

Synonyms

prosperous

vsboomy

83 4.1

Doing well and having a lot of money

refers to rapid expansion and growth rather than steady success

booming

vsboomy

37 3.4

A town or business that is growing quickly and doing well

is focused on rapid growth specifically in business and the economy

burgeoning

vsboomy

24 6.5

Starting to grow quickly, like a new business or neighbourhood

describes ongoing or fully developed rapid growth rather than the start

roaring

vsboomy

14 4.1

Very successful and making a lot of money

emphasizes rapid expansion rather than only high profit levels

Antonyms

stagnant

43 4.8

Not moving or changing and showing little activity

How Fast

boomy

1 7.0

growing

23 1.0

slow

70 2.0

stagnant

43 4.8

Surface Forms

boomy positive

Morphology

boomy = boom (transparent) = boom + y

Direct and regular adjective formation from the noun 'boom' using the productive suffix '-y', yielding the sense 'experiencing a boom'.

Etymology

Boomy comes from the simple sound word boom, which imitates a loud, deep noise and later came to mean 'sudden, big growth' in business. So boomy describes something that is growing fast or doing very well.