raving

[ rey-ving ]

adjective

1. talking wildly; delirious; frenzied:

   a raving maniac.

2. Informal. extraordinary or remarkable:

   a raving beauty.

adverb

1. furiously or wildly:

   a remark that made me raving mad.

noun

1. Usually ravings.
   1. irrational, incoherent talk:

      Putting him in a straitjacket did not stop his ravings.

   2. wildly extravagant or outrageous talk; bombast.

raving

/ ˈreɪvɪŋ /

adjective

1. 1. delirious; frenzied
   2. ( as adverb )

      raving mad

2. informal.
   (intensifier)

   a raving beauty

noun

1. usually plural frenzied, irrational, or wildly extravagant talk or utterances

Derived Forms

• ˈravingly, adverb

Other Words From

• raving·ly adverb
• un·raving adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of raving¹

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English; rave ¹, -ing ¹, -ing ²

Example Sentences

Perhaps the fictional killer quote-drop is Vance’s attempt to align himself with President-elect Trump, who spent his summer raving about the “late, great Hannibal Lecter.”

From Salon

Even back in 2016, Trump was raving about how he loves "the poorly educated."

From Salon

As he becomes even more disinhibited with age, Trump has been less capable of wrapping these white supremacist views in terms of plausible deniability, instead raving about his utterly false belief that people from non-European nations have "bad genes."

From Salon

Normal people see him as a half-literate puddinghead, but he is always raving about how he's got a high IQ and was born a genius.

From Salon

“She comes off as dark, sexy, and spooky, and then all of a sudden she’s just a raving idiot, and a klutz that falls down, that Three Stooges kind of humor.”

From Los Angeles Times