Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Talking or behaving irrationally; wild: a raving maniac.
- adj. Exciting admiration: a raving beauty.
- n. Delirious, irrational speech.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Furious exclamation; irrational incoherent talk.
- Furious with delirium; mad; distracted.
- Fit to excite admiration or enthusiasm; hence, amazing, intense, superlative, or the like.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of rave.
- n. usually plural Wild, incoherent, or irrational talk.
- adj. Talking wildly.
- adj. Causing excitement or wild praise.
- adv. Incoherently.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Talking irrationally and wildly.
WordNet 3.0
- n. declaiming wildly
- adv. in a raving manner
Examples
“He limped out at the window, and was presently found by his great-aunt, reading what he called a raving novel, to see how he ought to have done it.”
“Everyone knows full well that the whole purpose of their ranting and raving is to get the rumors out there, but then prevent him from debunking him by shouting and acting like angry monkeys.”
“(And while I can't speak for the network or the producers, all of this ranting and raving is purely anecdotal and isn't likely to shape the future direction of the show or its character development.)”
“He hears a fair amount of ranting and raving from the public, he said.”
The Huffington Post: Susan Buchanan: Streets Unlit After Dusk In Parts of New Orleans
“Reading your poorly constructed crap and random scattershot raving is tough work indeed.”
“Reading your poorly constructed crap and random scattershot raving is tough work indeed. and reading your ostensibly and grammatically correct bullshit is of any value?”
“Most of the ranting and raving is about things that are not true or even close to true.”
“What does one call a raving egomaniac and known meglomaniac who counts on homicide for politiccal reasons to ensure their political future ... who does not live in Pakistan ... who does not expect the Secret Service to investigate their pasty white, double-wide ass?”
Hillary Invokes RFK Assassination While Describing Why She's Staying In Race
“I am purposely keeping this information from this “blog” as I now understand how pathetic all this ranting and raving is … … ..”
“People ranting and raving is more entertaining to read than orderly questions about which hotels accept pets.”
I've tried but am not enjoying this site anymore-too many gadgets
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘raving’.
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important
shamanism, consol, sanguine, iffy, affinity, concatenation, honed, innumberable, aiden, inexorable, vet, suss and 176 more...
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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MUSIC - metal
Names of heavy / black / thrash / sludge / speed / death / glam metal + thrashcore bands + some basic vocabulary. There is a naming contest going on between Hell and Heaven.
Nazareth, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Death, heavy metal, black metal, death metal, thrashcore, hardcore punk, Motörhead, Raven, Angel Witch and 108 more...
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1999 more...
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Favourite Words
sanguine, irk, pith, venerate, anomaly, reprobate, ethereal, antediluvian, obfuscate, wistful, plethora, absinthe and 108 more...
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臨也
frenzy, delirium, furor, fanaticism, intoxication, infatuation, obsession, egotism, obdurate, egoism, deranged, raving and 1 more...
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dies irae
furious, angry, wrathful, wroth, hysterical, apoplectic, belligerent, livid, irate, rabid, raving, riled and 18 more...
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