Rant
[rænt]
Definition
(v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.
(n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
Typist: Ronald
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Spout, declaim (boisterously), rave (in high-sounding phrases), vociferate, mouth, tear a passion to tatters.
n. Fustian, bombast, rhodomontade, exaggeration, boisterous declamation.
Checker: Sabina
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Bombast, rhodomontade, flummery, declamation, raving, boasting
ANT:Reason, argument, eloquence, logic, rhetoric
Editor: Lucius
Definition
v.i. to use extravagant language: to be noisy in words: to be noisily merry.—n. empty declamation: bombast: (Scot.) a frolic.—ns. Rant′er a noisy talker: a jovial fellow: a boisterous preacher: a byname for the Primitive Methodists: a nickname applied to the members of a sect of the Commonwealth time; Rant′erism.—adv. Rant′ingly boisterously.—adj. Rant′ipole wild.—n. a reckless fellow.
Inputed by Clinton
Examples
- I hate Italy and her national rant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I feel as if I could be anything or everything; as if I could rant and storm, or sigh or cut capers, in any tragedy or comedy in the English language. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Poetry will not exist for Mark, either in literature or in life; its best effusions will sound to him mere rant and jargon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To speak the honest truth, without any false rant or assumed romancethere actually was a moment, six months ago, when I thought her divine. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To rant, to rave, to be tragic, to make situations--it was all too late. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Rant and fustian! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And what now avails rant or flattery? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Where is the use of ranting and spouting about it, then? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Let us have no ranting tragedies. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- When the lad ended she began, precisely in the same words, and ranted on without hitch or divergence till she too reached the end. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If his rents were but equal to his rants! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- A poor honourable is no catch, and I cannot imagine any liking in the case, for take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothing. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Typist: Waldo