rant

(rănt)

v. rant·ed, rant·ing, rants

v.intr.

1. To speak or write in an angry or emotionally charged manner; rave.

2. To express at length a complaint or negative opinion: "He could rant on the subject of physician-assisted illness" (Paul Theroux).

v.tr.

To utter or express by ranting: "Adams's fellow Federalists ranted that he was mentally unfit to be president" (Susan Dunn).

1. Angry, emotionally charged, or tediously negative speech or writing: a speech that was more rant than reason.

2. An example of such speech or writing: a rant against the university's policies.

3. Chiefly British Wild or uproarious merriment.

[Probably from obsolete Dutch ranten.]

rant′er n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

ranting - a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion

harangue, rant

declamation - vehement oratory

screed - a long monotonous harangue

Translations

altisonante clamoroso

ranting

[ˈræntɪŋ]

A. N → lenguaje m declamatorio
for all his ranting → por mucho que despotrique

B. ADJ → campanudo, declamatorio

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ranting

[ˈræntɪŋ] n (= diatribe) → diatribe m

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ranting

n (= outburst) → Geschimpfe nt; (= incoherent talk) → irres Zeug

adj → pathetisch

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ranting

[ˈræntɪŋ] n (pej) → invettiva

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Fred was ranting mad--said he wanted a boy--when the truth is he didn't want it at all.

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"A roaring, ranting, sleek man-thief, Who lived on mutton, veal, and beef, Yet never would afford relief To needy, sable sons of grief, Was big with heavenly union.

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An idea may be formed from the scenes we have already given of conviviality in the wilderness, of the manner in which these game birds were received by those of their feather in the camp; what feasting, what revelling, what boasting, what bragging, what ranting and roaring, and racing and gambling, and squabbling and fighting, ensued among these boon companions.

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I am obliged to your lordship for the generous offer you have made; I own it is beyond either my deserts or expectations; yet I hope, my lord, you will not insist on my reasons, when I declare I cannot accept it." Lord Fellamar returned much to this, which we do not perfectly understand, and perhaps it could not all be strictly reconciled either to sense or grammar; but he concluded his ranting speech with saying, "That if she had pre-engaged herself to any gentleman, however unhappy it would make him, he should think himself bound in honour to desist." Perhaps my lord laid too much emphasis on the word gentleman; for we cannot else well account for the indignation with which he inspired Sophia, who, in her answer, seemed greatly to resent some affront he had given her.

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Maclaren; and then after a great number of civilities, Robin took the pipes and played a little spring in a very ranting manner.

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I joined them because Margery Alspaye, of Bolder, married Crooked Thomas of Ringwood, and left a certain John of Hordle in the cold, for that he was a ranting, roving blade who was not to be trusted in wedlock.

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For proper dramatic action they largely substitute ranting moralizing declamation, with crudely exaggerated passion, and they exhibit a great vein of melodramatic horror, for instance in the frequent use of the motive of implacable revenge for murder and of a ghost who incites to it.

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It reminded her of the old times when Bert had been with them, singing his songs or ranting about the last of the Mohicans.

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For a moment in his tender voice I caught a glimpse of a new Challenger, something very far from the bullying, ranting, arrogant man who had alternately amazed and offended his generation.

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A MAN who hurled racist abuse on the street has told a sheriff he was just ranting about Brexit - to his dog.

MAN IN DOCK OVER RACIST BREXIT RANT ...TO HIS DOG; Yob urged Poles and Romanians 'to go home' Man's racist rant to dog punished