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| Main Entry: |
rant
 [rant] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | yell, rave |
| Synonyms: | bellow, bloviate, blow one's top, bluster, carry on, clamor, cry, declaim, fume, harangue, mouth, objurgate, orate, perorate, rage, rail, roar, scold, shout, sizzle, soapbox, sound off, spiel*, spout, storm*, stump, take on*, vociferate |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | anger |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make someone mad; become mad |
| Synonyms: | acerbate, affront, aggravate, agitate, annoy, antagonize, arouse, bait, blow up, boil over, boil, bristle, burn, burn up, chafe, craze*, cross, displease, egg on, embitter, enrage, exacerbate, exasperate, excite, fret, gall, get mad, get on one's nerves, goad, incense, inflame, infuriate, irritate, lose one's temper, madden, make sore, miff, nettle, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, raise hell, rankle, rant, rave, rile, ruffle, seethe, steam up, stew, stir up, tempt, umbrage, vex |
| Antonyms: | calm, forbear, make happy, quiet, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | babble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trivial talk, often incessant |
| Synonyms: | blubbering, burble, chatter, clamor, drivel, gab, gabble, gibberish, gossip, gushing, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jargon, murmur, muttering, prattle, ranting, tattling |
| Antonyms: | quiet, sense, wisdom |
Example Sentences
- It is simplistic to believe that all our information comes from deliberate tuning in to extremists' ranting.
- Never heard a smoker ranting about a non-smoking one.
- Unless you address that inverted pyramid all you are doing is ranting.
| Main Entry: | babble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk trivially, often incessantly |
| Synonyms: | blab, blubber, blurt, burble, cackle, chat, chatter, gibber, go on, gossip, gush, jabber, mumble, murmur, mutter, patter, prate, prattle, rant, rave, run off at the mouth, run on, spill the beans, squeal, talk foolishly, talk incoherently, talk nonsensically, tattle, trivialize, yak, yakkety yak |
| Antonyms: | be quiet |
| Main Entry: | bluster |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bully, intimidate |
| Synonyms: | badger, boast, brag, brazen, browbeat, bulldoze, cow*, crow*, domineer, gloat, hector, rant, rave, ride the high horse, roar, roister, shoot off one's mouth, show off, storm, strut, swagger, swell, talk big, vapor, vaunt, yap |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bombastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous, grandiloquent |
| Synonyms: | aureate, balderdash, big-talking, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, full of hot air, fustian, grandiose, high-flown, highfalutin, histrionic, inflated, loudmouthed, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, sonorous, stuffed shirt, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | humble, quiet, reserved, restrained |
| Main Entry: | declaim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | proclaim; get on a soapbox |
| Synonyms: | attack, bloviate, blow hot air, declare, decry, denounce, harangue, hold forth, inveigh, lecture, mouth, orate, perorate, pile it on, proclaim, rail, rant, recite, soapbox, speak, spiel*, spout, talk big |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | erupt, blow |
| Synonyms: | blaze, boil over, break out, burn, burn up, burst, dart, dazzle, explode, fire up, flash, flicker, flutter, fume, glare, glow, go off, lose control, rant, seethe, shimmer, shoot, waver |
| Notes: | flair is a natural talent or distinctive and stylish elegance while a flare (noun) is a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate - flare (verb) means to burn brightly or to erupt or intensify suddenly |
| Main Entry: | fume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get very upset about |
| Synonyms: | anger, blow up, boil, bristle, burn, chafe, chomp at the bit, get hot, get steamed up, rage, rant, rave, seethe, smoke*, storm* |
| Antonyms: | be calm, be happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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