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rant
[ rant ]
verb (used without object)
- to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave:
The demagogue ranted for hours.
verb (used with object)
- to utter or declaim in a ranting manner.
noun
- ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
Synonyms: extravagance, bombast
- a ranting utterance.
rant
/ rænt /
verb
- to utter (something) in loud, violent, or bombastic tones
- intr to make merry; frolic
noun
- loud, declamatory, or extravagant speech; bombast
- a wild revel
- an energetic dance or its tune
Derived Forms
- ˈranter, noun
- ˈranting, adjectivenoun
- ˈrantingly, adverb
Other Words From
- ranter noun
- ranting·ly adverb
- outrant verb (used with object)
- un·ranting adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of rant1
Word History and Origins
Origin of rant1
Example Sentences
As anybody who has seen his now famous rant on Parks and Recreation knows, Patton Oswalt can get a little obsessed.
Nearly two weeks after the killing, Jackson went on a week-long rant.
An Uber driver went on an anti-gay, ant-American rant before physically assaulting his passenger.
A network insider insisted: “No expletives were uttered by Mr Mason in the recording of his rant.”
Far from a rant, her tone throughout is cool and methodical, and her critiques are couched more in sorrow than in anger.
Instances of this defect are but too thickly sown through the piece; for example the following rant.
For the rest, it is what we have attempted to characterise as poetical rant—imagination grown raving and delirious.
Do the Methodist preachers really rant and shriek as much as people say?
There was no symptom of raving or rant; no vulgarity or bad taste.
We do not find in it the rant of his later dramas, and the subject is taken strictly from Jewish life.
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