raving

raving
Synonyms and related words:
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

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • raving — [rā′viŋ] adj. 1. raging; delirious; frenzied ☆ 2. Informal exciting great admiration or praise; notable [a raving beauty] adv. so as to cause raving [raving mad] n. delirious, incoherent speech …   English World dictionary

  • Raving — Rav ing (r[=a]v [i^]ng), a. Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic. {Rav ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • raving — ► NOUN (ravings) ▪ wild or incoherent talk. ► ADJECTIVE & ADVERB informal ▪ extremely or conspicuously the thing mentioned: raving mad …   English terms dictionary

  • raving — index bluster (speech), bombast, frenetic, incoherence, insanity, lunatic, non compos mentis, zealous …   Law dictionary

  • raving — late 15c.; see RAVE (Cf. rave); sense of remarkable is from 1841 …   Etymology dictionary

  • raving — rav|ing1 [ˈreıvıŋ] adj [only before noun] informal 1.) talking or behaving in a crazy way ▪ a raving lunatic 2.) especially BrE used to emphasize that someone or something has a lot of a particular quality ▪ She was no raving beauty , but at… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • raving — [[t]re͟ɪvɪŋ[/t]] 1) ADJ: usu ADJ n You use raving to describe someone who you think is completely mad. [INFORMAL] Malcolm looked at her as if she were a raving lunatic. ADV: ADV adj Raving is also an adverb. I m afraid Jean Paul has gone raving… …   English dictionary

  • raving — ravingly, adv. /ray ving/, adj. 1. talking wildly; delirious; frenzied: a raving maniac. 2. Informal. extraordinary or remarkable: a raving beauty. adv. 3. furiously or wildly: a remark that made me raving mad. n. 4. Usually, ravings. a.… …   Universalium

  • raving — adjective informal 1 talking or behaving in a crazy way: a raving lunatic | raving mad informal especially BrE (=completely crazy) 2 raving beauty/success someone who is very beautiful or something that is very successful …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • raving — rav•ing [[t]ˈreɪ vɪŋ[/t]] adj. 1) talking wildly; delirious: a raving maniac[/ex] 2) extraordinary in degree: a raving beauty[/ex] 3) cvb furiously; wildly: raving mad[/ex] 4) cvb Usu., ravings. incoherent or extravagant talk …   From formal English to slang

  • Raving — Rave Rave (r[=a]v), v. i. [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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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