Word Meanings - RANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher. Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes! Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RANT)

• Harangue
• Speech
• oration
• declamation
• effusion
• rant
• Rave
• Wander
• drivel

Related words: (words related to RANT)

• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• EFFUSION
  1. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden. 2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• HARANGUE
  A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• WANDERINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• SPEECHIFICATION
  The act of speechifying.
• HARANGUEFUL
  Full of harangue.
• DECLAMATION
  1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with
• WANDERER
  One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
• WANDERING
  a. & n. from Wander, v. Wandering albatross , the great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross. -- Wandering cell , an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood. -- Wandering
• WANDER
  1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins. Heb. xi. 37. He wandereth abroad for
• SPEECHMAKER
  One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
• SPEECH
  speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprahha, G. sprache, Sw. spr, 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the
• HARANGUER
  One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.
• DEDECORATION
  Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• ELABORATION
  The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• PIGNORATION
  The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill. (more info) pignerate to pledge, fr. pignus, gen. -ous and -eris, a pledge, a 1. The act of pledging or pawning.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• RORATION
  A falling of dew.
• COMMEMORATION
  1. The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event. This sacrament was designed to be a standing commemoration of the death and passion of our Lord. Abp. Tillotson. The commonwealth which
• ROBORATION
  The act of strengthening. Coles.
• CORPORATION
  A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual. Note: Corporations are aggregate or
• MORATION
  A delaying tarrying; delay. Sir T. Browne.
• QUASI CORPORATION
  A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the
• DEPLORATION
  The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation. Speed.