the faint roar of ther river

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alpacinou

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Is it okay to say "the faint roar of the river"?

Or since "roar" already means loud, it would wrong to put it after "faint"?

She heard, over the faint roar of the river, the cawing of a crow deep in the forest.
 

jutfrank

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I think it's fine, yes.
 
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