Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: howling
IPA transcription: [h'aʊlɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
    Meaning: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: howl, howling, ululation
    Meaning: a long loud emotional utterance; "he gave a howl of pain"; "howls of laughter"; "their howling had no effect"
Usage examples
  • How the jackals are howling....
  • Across the ravines came the howling of wolves.
  • Gunnar was howling curses and kicking like a frog.
  • He ran off, howling in terror and wildly prancing around.
  • Polly, mark my words--in three years from this, Hawkeye'll be a howling wilderness. You'll see.
  • Immediately the sky grew black, the lightning crashed, and there arose a terrible, howling wind.
  • Six weeks afterwards a person happening to look down an old coal-pit, was surprised to hear a dog howling.
  • As he still heard Zip howling and several people were talking all at once, he made bold to open the door and step in.
  • We hadn't gone two cable lengths when a hundred savages, howling and gesticulating, entered the water up to their waists.
  • So not to take any chances he drew up at the side of the road and rested there, though it was freezing hard and a north-east wind howling.