 |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rave \Rave\ (r[=a]v), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Raved} (r[=a]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Raving}.] [F. r[^e]ver to rave, to be delirious, to dream; perhaps fr. L. rabere to rave, rage, be mad or furious. Cf. {Rage}, {Reverie}.]
1. To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman.
In our madness evermore we rave. --Chaucer.
Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast? --Addison.
The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie. --Macaulay.
2. To rush wildly or furiously. --Spenser.
3. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty.
The hallowed scene Which others rave of, though they know it not. --Byron.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Raving \Rav"ing\ (r[=a]v"[i^]ng), adjective Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic. -- {Rav"ing*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
raving
adjective: talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic" [syn: {raving mad}, {wild}]
noun: declaiming wildly; "the raving of maniacs"
adverb: in a raving manner; "raving mad" [syn: {ravingly}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
165 Moby Thesaurus words for "raving": Dionysiac, abandoned, afebrile delirium, amok, anarchic, angry, babble, babbling, bacchic, balderdash, beaming, bellowing, berserk, blooming, bluster, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bombast, brainstorm, bright, brilliant, bullying, bunk, bunkum, carried away, chaotic, claptrap, corybantic, crazed, crazy, dazzling, delirious, deliriousness, delirium, demoniac, desperate, devastating, distracted, divine, dizzy, ecstatic, enraged, enraptured, extraordinary, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad, flatulence, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, furious, fustian, gab, gabble, gibberish, giddy, glamorous, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, grandiloquence, great, haggard, heavenly, hectoring, hellish, hog-wild, hopping mad, hot air, howling, hyperbole, hysterical, in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, incoherence, incoherent, infuriate, infuriated, insane, insensate, intoxicated, irrational, killing, lightheaded, like one possessed, lingual delirium, mad, madding, maenadic, magniloquence, maniac, maniacal, manic, mindless, noisy, off, orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic, outstanding, pandemoniac, phenomenal, pomposity, possessed, puffery, rabid, radiant, raging, rambling, ramping, rant, ranting, rare, ravening, raving mad, ravished, ravishing, resplendent, rhetoric, rip-roaring, roaring, roaring mad, rodomontade, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, running mad, running wild, savage, shining, sparkling, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, stark-raving mad, storming, stormy, striking, stunning, sublime, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, uncommon, uncontrollable, unusual, uproarious, vaporing, violent, wandering, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking
 |
Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information. - KM |