as in breathtaking
causing great emotional or mental stimulation
a rip-roaring tale of the Old West
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Recent Examples of rip-roaring
Charlie’s rip-roaring account of the Helgoland conference surveys the tangled web of quantum interpretations that are in play.
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Quanta Magazine, 17 Dec. 2025
The vampire period thriller, set in 1930s Mississippi, is rip-roaring fun.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025
Within that rip-roaring running time, director Josh Safdie volleys audiences from the grotty tenements of New York’s Lower East Side — the Jewish neighborhood Marty calls home — to a swanky room at the Ritz hotel in London, to a climactic match in Tokyo.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
The Mummy, Stephen Sommers’ rip-roaring reboot of the 1932 Boris Karloff classic, turned star Brendan Fraser into an action hero upon its release in 1999.
—Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Nov. 2025
Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl pays homage to the rip-roaring lifestyle of showgirls.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Most were powered by V-8 engines, bedecked in chrome, and built in Detroit, but some European vehicles also gained a foothold in the U.S., notably rip-roaring British roadsters and a German oddball called the Volkswagen Beetle.
—Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 30 July 2025
Luke Combs kicked off the most high-profile summer of performances of his career with a rip-roaring headline set at Category 10.
—Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 14 July 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rip-roaring
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Located in northern Spain, along the Bay of Biscay and between the popular cities of Bilbao and San Sebastián, the Urola Coast of Basque Country is a breathtaking stretch of shoreline.—
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In dozens of interviews in villages on Venezuela's breathtaking northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had indeed been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists or leaders of a cartel or gang.—
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This season already has plenty of exciting acting talents to spot on the red carpets—including frontrunners such as Chase Infiniti, Renate Reinsve, and Rose Byrne.—
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Craft service had Cinnabons — that was exciting.—
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The band might be thematically diving into the past, but their present is equally thrilling.—
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The stage is set for the medal games at the 2026 World Juniors following Sunday’s two excellent semifinals, highlighted by a thrilling Sweden-Finland overtime game that needed an eight-round shootout and the Czechs bouncing the Canadians for a third straight year in the elimination round.—
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The Cowboys have mastered the art of entertaining and interesting better than any sports franchise in the world, but there is a redundancy that to the person who spends a lot of their money on it is justifiably checked out.—
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Seeing these guys unapologetically portrayed by an actor whose superpower is the audience is always with him was interesting.—
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But a new study has cast doubt on the idea that the intriguing world shrouded in ice could indeed harbor extraterrestrial life deep in its vast ocean of liquid saltwater.—
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The most intriguing combo of late, though, features Robertson, Nicolas Roy and Easton Cowan.—
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“Rip-roaring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rip-roaring. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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