Antonyms for rant

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : rant

Phonetic Transcription : rænt

Definition of rant

Origin : c.1600, "to be jovial and boisterous," also "to talk bombastically," from Dutch randten (earlier ranten) "talk foolishly, rave," of unknown origin (cf. German rantzen "to frolic, spring about"). Related: Ranted; ranting. Ranters "antinomian sect which arose in England c.1645" is attested from 1651; applied 1823 to early Methodists. A 1700 slang dictionary has rantipole "a rude wild Boy or Girl" (also as a verb and adjective); to ride rantipole meant "The woman uppermost in the amorous congress" [Grose].

noun yelling, raving
verb yell, rave

Example sentences :

Through the whole range of rant he rages like a man inspired.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various

Is there any genuine conviction at the bottom of all this rant and raving?
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 » by Various

There was no symptom of raving or rant; no vulgarity or bad taste.
Extract from : « Mystic London: » by Charles Maurice Davies

She knows her man, and when you rant and swear Can draw you to her with a single hair.
Extract from : « The Career of Katherine Bush » by Elinor Glyn

Crowne too was a poet, as is evident from Thyestes, in spite of repulsiveness and rant.
Extract from : « Thomas Otway » by Thomas Otway

Never before in the country-side had such a rant been seen or heard tell of.
Extract from : « Cats » by W. Gordon Stables

There was no rant, no affectation, no straining after theatrical effect.
Extract from : « The Life of John Taylor » by B. H. Roberts

And yet there is no noisiness, no wordiness, about them; nothing like rant or violence.
Extract from : « Discipline » by Charles Kingsley

What is my return for the abuse and rant which he lavishes against me?
Extract from : « The Newcomes » by William Makepeace Thackeray

He wondered how he could have been so foolish as to rant and rave about the inevitable.
Extract from : « Lord Arthur Savile's Crime » by Oscar Wilde

Synonyms for rant

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