Word Meanings - RAVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic. -- Rav"ing*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAVING)

• Frantic
• Mad
• raving
• furious
• distracted
• wild
• frenzied
• maniacal
• Frenzy
• Fanaticism
• madness
• fury
• fire
• Phrensy
• Madness
• insanity
• delirium
• mania
• hallucination
• afflatus
• inspiration
• Rabid
• Furious
• raging
• mad
• infuriated
• frantic
• Rant
• Bombast
• rhodomontade
• flummery
• declamation
• boasting

Related words: (words related to RAVING)

• RAGULED; RAGGULED
  Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
• MANIAC
  Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
• RAVENER
  1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland.
• RAGE
  1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• RAVELIN
  A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
• FRENZICAL
  Frantic. Orrery.
• RAGLAN
  A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
• RAVEN
  A large black passerine bird , similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven , the cormorant. (more info) Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus,
• RAGAMUFFIN
  The long-tailed titmouse. (more info) 1. A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden. 2. A person who wears ragged clothing.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• RAVENING
  Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39.
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• RABIDLY
  In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.
• RAGHUVANSA
  A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.
• RAVISHING
  Rapturous; transporting.
• RAVAGER
  One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
• RAGIOUS
  Raging; furious; rageful. -- Ra"gious*ness, n.
• TETRAGYNIA
  A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• GRAVIDATION
  Gravidity.
• PHRAGMOCONE
  The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
• MORAVIAN
  Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• MOORAGE
  A place for mooring.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
  The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• MEGALOMANIA
  A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.