From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tirade \Ti*rade"\, noun [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See {Tear} to rend, and cf. {Tire} to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. --Quarterly Review.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a speech of violent denunciation [syn: {philippic}, {broadside}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "tirade": abundance, abuse, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, amplitude, assailing, assault, attack, bawl, berating, bitter words, blackening, censure, chalk talk, cloud of words, condemnation, contumely, copiousness, cry, debate, declamation, denunciation, diatribe, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dolorous tirade, effusion, effusiveness, eulogy, execration, exhortation, extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, filibuster, fluency, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, formlessness, funeral oration, groan, gush, gushing, harangue, hard words, hortatory address, howl, inaugural, inaugural address, invective, jawing, jeremiad, keen, lament, lecture, logorrhea, macrology, moan, murmur, mutter, onslaught, oration, outburst, outcry, outpour, overflow, palilogy, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, plaint, planctus, pleonasm, prepared speech, prepared text, prodigality, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, public speech, rampancy, rankness, rant, rating, reading, recital, recitation, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, revilement, rodomontade, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, scream, screed, sermon, set speech, sob, speech, speechification, speeching, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, talk, talkathon, talkativeness, tautology, teemingness, tongue-lashing, ululation, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, vilification, vituperation, wail, wail of woe, whimper, whine, yawp, yowl
Define.com is a registered nonprofit corporation dedicated solely to the global public interest and the advancement of humanity. It belongs to all of us who have a desire to promote electronic democracy, science, creativity, imagination, reason, critical thinking, peace, race and gender equality, civil rights, equal access to education, personal liberty, free speech, animal rights, compassionate and nonviolent parenting, social and economic justice, global monetary reform, Secular Humanism, cognitive liberty and a permanent cessation of The War on Drugs.
Let's see what we can do if we put our heads together.
0