Another word for rant
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Verb
To speak in a loud, pompous, or prolonged manner
- To speak wildly, irrationally, or incoherently.
- To move with great violence or intensity:
- To speak or write with wild enthusiasm:
- To conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation.
- To speak at great length, often in a grandiloquent manner; declaim.
- The body opening through which an animal takes in food.
- The cavity lying at the upper end of the digestive tract, bounded on the outside by the lips and inside by the oropharynx and containing in humans and certain other vertebrates the tongue, gums, and teeth.
- This cavity regarded as the source of sounds and speech.
- A long pompous speech, especially one delivered before a gathering.
- A speech or piece of writing characterized by strong feeling or expression; a tirade.
- To deliver a harangue to.
- To deliver a formal recitation, especially as an exercise in rhetoric or elocution.
- To speak loudly and vehemently; inveigh.
- To utter or recite with rhetorical effect.
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Noun
Pretentious, pompous speech or writing
- the state or quality of being turgid
- The quality of being orotund.
- The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
- Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
- Pompous or bombastic speech or expression.
- A coarse sturdy cloth made of cotton and linen or flax.
- Any of several thick twilled cotton fabrics, such as corduroy, having a short nap.
- Pretentious speech or writing; pompous language.
- Pretentious, insincere, or empty language:
- Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
- Grandiose or overpowering expression, as in music or painting.
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Another word for rant
Noun
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- The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
- A treatise or book discussing this art.
- Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.
- Talking or behaving irrationally; wild:
- Exciting admiration:
- Delirious, irrational speech.
- A long angry speech, usually of a censorious or denunciatory nature; a diatribe.
- Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing.
- Grandiose or overpowering expression, as in music or painting.
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Verb
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- A long pompous speech, especially one delivered before a gathering.
- A speech or piece of writing characterized by strong feeling or expression; a tirade.
- To deliver a harangue to.
- A bar extending horizontally between supports, as in a fence.
- A structure made of such bars and supports and forming a barrier or guard; a railing.
- A steel bar used, usually in pairs, as a track for railroad cars or other wheeled vehicles.
- Vapor, gas, or smoke, especially if irritating, harmful, or strong.
- A strong or acrid odor.
- A state of resentment or vexation.
- To speak wildly, irrationally, or incoherently.
- To move with great violence or intensity:
- To speak or write with wild enthusiasm:
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