- rant⇄adv. rantingly.
- rant⇄expr. rant and rave, to speak or scold wildly and violently.
Ex. Rant and rave as he might, the children blithely went on with their playing. - rant⇄noun ranter.
- rant⇄noun 1a. extravagant, violent, or noisy speech.
Ex. Madly enough he preached ... with imperfect utterance, amid much frothy rant (Thomas Carlyle).
b. ranting words.
Ex. He sometimes ... in his rants talked with Norman haughtiness of th - rant⇄rant, verb, noun.
- rant⇄v.i. 1. to speak wildly, extravagantly, violently, or noisily.
(SYN) declaim, rave.
2. (Archaic.)
a. to carouse.
Ex. Wi' quaffing and laughing, They ranted and they sang (Robert Burns).
b. to lead a dissolute life.