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say it: HOW-ling
howling is a noun and adjective meaning "a long loud emotional utterance". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for howling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.