ranting

The word “ranting” has 2 syllables: rant-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈræntɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for ranting?

In the thesaurus, “ranting” has 136 synonyms and 41 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for ranting along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for ranting

  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • aggravated
  • angered
  • angry
  • annoyed
  • antagonistic
  • antipathetic
  • antisocial
  • apoplectic
  • argumentative
  • ballistic
  • bearish
  • belligerent
  • bilious
  • bitter
  • blaring
  • bloviating
  • blowing
  • blustering
  • boiling
  • bolting
  • bristling
  • bristly
  • burning
  • cantankerous
  • carrying on
  • cheesed off
  • choleric
  • churlish
  • cold
  • contentious
  • contrary
  • cool
  • crabby
  • cranky
  • cross
  • declaiming
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disputatious
  • distant
  • dyspeptic
  • embittered
  • enflamed
  • enraged
  • exasperated
  • foaming
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fulminating
  • fuming
  • furious
  • fussy
  • grouchy
  • grumpy
  • haranguing
  • hopping
  • horn-mad
  • hot
  • huffing
  • huffy
  • icy
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • insane
  • irascible
  • irate
  • ireful
  • irritable
  • livid
  • mad
  • malevolent
  • orating
  • ornery
  • outraged
  • passionate
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • petulant
  • piqued
  • pontificating
  • pugnacious
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • querulous
  • quick-tempered
  • rabid
  • raging
  • rancorous
  • rankled
  • raving
  • resentful
  • riled
  • riley
  • roiled
  • seething
  • shirty
  • sizzling
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • sounding off
  • speaking out
  • speaking up
  • spiteful
  • spouting
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • storming
  • stormy
  • sulky
  • taking on
  • teed off
  • testy
  • ticked
  • touchy
  • unfriendly
  • unpleasant
  • vengeful
  • vindictive
  • virulent
  • vitriolic
  • worked up
  • wrathful
  • wroth

Antonyms for ranting

  • accepting
  • accommodating
  • affable
  • agreeable
  • amenable
  • amiable
  • amicable
  • angerless
  • breathing
  • calm
  • complaisant
  • content
  • cordial
  • delighted
  • easygoing
  • empathetic
  • friendly
  • genial
  • good-natured
  • good-tempered
  • grunting
  • happy
  • kind
  • murmuring
  • muttering
  • obliging
  • pacific
  • peaceable
  • placid
  • pleasant
  • pleased
  • satisfied
  • serene
  • slurring
  • sweet
  • sympathetic
  • tolerant
  • tranquil
  • understanding
  • unembittered
  • whispering

Meanings of ranting

  • verb
    1. To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
    2. To criticize by ranting.
    3. To speak extravagantly, as in merriment.
    4. To dance rant steps.
  • noun
    1. A long, angry, and impassioned speech.
    2. The act or process of delivering a rant.

Example Sentences

  • He was ranting about the latest political issues during the entire dinner.
  • She couldn’t concentrate on her work because her coworker kept ranting about his problems.
  • After ranting for several minutes, he finally took a deep breath and calmed down.
  • The comedian's ranting about everyday life had the audience laughing uncontrollably.
  • Instead of solving the issue, they ended up ranting at each other, which only made things worse.

On this page you'll find 177 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to ranting, such as: accepting, accommodating, acrid, acrimonious, affable, aggravated, agreeable.

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Related Words

acceding

  • abatement
  • abiding
  • accession
  • accommodation
  • accord
  • accordance
  • acknowledging
  • acquiescing
  • adjustment
  • adopting
  • affiliation
  • affinity
  • agreeing
  • alleviation
  • alliance
  • amends
  • amity
  • approving
  • arbitration
  • arrangement
  • assenting
  • assuagement
  • authorizing
  • bargaining
  • blunting
  • bowing
  • chime
  • co
  • coming round
  • compatibility
  • compliance
  • complying
  • compromise
  • concert
  • concession
  • conciliation
  • concord
  • concordance
  • concurring
  • conformity
  • congruity
  • consenting
  • consistency
  • correspondence
  • easing
  • embracing
  • endorsing
  • enduring
  • espousing
  • grant
  • granting
  • harmony
  • knuckling under
  • lessening
  • lulling
  • mediation
  • mitigation
  • moderation
  • mollification
  • peace offering
  • placation
  • propitiation
  • quelling
  • quenching
  • quieting
  • ratifying
  • reconciliation
  • relenting
  • reparation
  • restoration
  • settlement
  • similarity
  • softening
  • solace
  • soothing
  • standing
  • stomaching
  • submitting
  • subscribing
  • succumbing
  • suffering
  • suitableness
  • swallowing
  • sympathy
  • taking
  • tolerating
  • tranquilization
  • understanding
  • union
  • unison
  • verification
  • verifying
  • yielding

acceptance

  • OK
  • accedence
  • accepting
  • accession
  • accord
  • accreditation
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquiring
  • admission
  • adoption
  • affability
  • affirmation
  • agreement
  • allowance
  • amenability
  • amiability
  • amicability
  • appeasement
  • approbation
  • approval
  • assent
  • authorization
  • biddability
  • capitulating
  • capitulation
  • capture
  • certification
  • cession
  • clearance
  • complaisance
  • compliance
  • compliancy
  • compromise
  • concession
  • conciliation
  • concurrence
  • confirmation
  • conformity
  • congeniality
  • consent
  • cooperation
  • cooperativeness
  • cordiality
  • deference
  • docility
  • fall
  • favor
  • friendliness
  • gaining
  • geniality
  • getting
  • go ahead
  • good-naturedness
  • grant
  • granting
  • green light
  • handover
  • humoring
  • imprimatur
  • indulgence
  • leave
  • liberty
  • licence
  • license
  • nod
  • obedience
  • obsequiousness
  • obtaining
  • okay
  • pass
  • patent
  • permission
  • permit
  • ratification
  • receipt
  • receiving
  • reception
  • receptiveness
  • receptivity
  • recognition
  • reconcilement
  • reconciliation
  • relinquishment
  • rendition
  • sanction
  • seal
  • seal of approval
  • securing
  • servility
  • signature
  • slavishness
  • sociability
  • stamp
  • submission
  • submissiveness
  • submitting
  • subservience
  • subserviency
  • sufferance
  • surrender
  • taking on
  • tolerance
  • toleration
  • undertaking
  • warrant
  • yes

accepting

  • abiding
  • abject
  • absorbing
  • acceding
  • acceptance
  • acceptive
  • acclaiming
  • accord
  • accounting
  • accrediting
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquiescing
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • admiring
  • admission
  • admitting
  • adopting
  • adoption
  • adoring
  • adulatory
  • advisory
  • advocating
  • affirmation
  • affirming
  • agreeing
  • agreement
  • allowing
  • altering
  • amenable
  • applauding
  • applying
  • appreciative
  • approbatory
  • appropriation
  • approval
  • approving
  • arrogation
  • artless
  • assent
  • assenting
  • assuming
  • assurance
  • attending
  • attentive
  • attestation
  • authenticating
  • authentication
  • authorization
  • authorizing
  • avowal
  • backing
  • bearing
  • becoming
  • belief
  • believing
  • biding
  • bleak
  • blue
  • born yesterday
  • bringing in
  • brokenhearted
  • brooking
  • buying
  • capitulating
  • certain
  • certainty
  • championing
  • cheerless
  • childlike
  • collecting
  • comfortless
  • commendatory
  • commending
  • compliance
  • complimentary
  • concentrating
  • concluding
  • confidence
  • confident
  • confiding
  • confirming
  • conjecture
  • consent
  • consenting
  • convinced
  • cooperation
  • corroborating
  • corroboration
  • countenancing
  • credit
  • crediting
  • credulous
  • crestfallen
  • cynical
  • dark
  • deducing
  • dejected
  • demonstration
  • dependence
  • dependent
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • disappointed
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • doleful
  • down
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • drawing
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dupable
  • earning
  • easy mark
  • embracing
  • employing
  • encomiastic
  • endorsement
  • endorsing
  • enduring
  • enjoying
  • espousing
  • eulogistic
  • evidence
  • expectation
  • faith
  • falling for
  • fancy
  • favorable
  • favoring
  • flattering
  • forlorn
  • friendly
  • funereal
  • gaining
  • gathering
  • getting
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • go ahead
  • going
  • going for
  • good
  • grab
  • green
  • green light
  • grieving
  • growing
  • guess
  • guileless
  • gullable
  • gullible
  • hacking
  • hagiographic
  • hagiographical
  • handling
  • hangdog
  • having
  • having faith
  • hearkening
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heeding
  • holding with
  • hopeful
  • hopeless
  • hunch
  • hypothesis
  • idolizing
  • inconsolable
  • indorsing
  • inference
  • inferring
  • inheriting
  • innocent
  • interested
  • joyless
  • kind
  • laudative
  • laudatory
  • lauding
  • lenient
  • liking
  • living with
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • magnanimous
  • making
  • meeting
  • melancholy
  • merciful
  • miserable
  • mournful
  • naive
  • nod
  • obtaining
  • okay
  • okaying
  • open
  • open-minded
  • overconfident
  • overtrusting
  • panegyrical
  • passage
  • passing
  • paying attention
  • permission
  • permitting
  • pessimistic
  • pocketing
  • posit
  • positive
  • postulate
  • postulation
  • practicing
  • praiseful
  • praising
  • premise
  • presuming
  • presumption
  • presupposition
  • proof
  • proving
  • ratifying
  • reaccepting
  • reassuming
  • receipt
  • receiving
  • reception
  • recognition
  • recommendatory
  • recommending
  • reliance
  • reliant
  • resigned
  • respectful
  • respecting
  • sad
  • saddened
  • saluting
  • sanction
  • sanctioning
  • secure
  • securing
  • seizure
  • setting store by
  • setting store on
  • shot
  • shot in the dark
  • shouldering
  • simple
  • sneaking suspicion
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stab
  • stamp of approval
  • standing
  • standing by
  • standing for
  • sticking out
  • stock
  • stomaching
  • store
  • submitting to
  • substantiation
  • succumbing
  • suffering
  • support
  • supporting
  • supportive
  • supposal
  • supposing
  • supposition
  • sure
  • surmise
  • suspicion
  • sustaining
  • swallow whole
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • sympathetic
  • taken in
  • takeover
  • taking
  • taking kindly to
  • taking on
  • taking over
  • taking up
  • testament
  • testimonial
  • testimony
  • testing
  • theorization
  • theory
  • thesis
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • uncritical
  • understanding
  • undertaking
  • undoubting
  • unhappy
  • unquestioning
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspecting
  • unsuspicious
  • unwary
  • upholding
  • usurpation
  • validating
  • verification
  • verifying
  • visa
  • wailing
  • warm
  • warrant
  • warranting
  • wearing
  • weeping
  • welcoming
  • witness
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • working
  • worshipful
  • worshiping
  • worshipping
  • wretched
  • yes

according

  • accordant
  • agnate
  • agreeing
  • akin
  • aligning
  • alike
  • alining
  • allocating
  • analogous
  • answering
  • appointing
  • appropriating
  • assigning
  • awarding
  • balanced
  • bestowing
  • blending
  • break even
  • checking
  • chording
  • cohering
  • coincident
  • coinciding
  • commensurate
  • comparable
  • compatible
  • comporting
  • concordant
  • conferring
  • conformable
  • conforming
  • congenial
  • congruous
  • consisting
  • contributing
  • coordinate
  • correspondent
  • corresponding
  • designating
  • donating
  • double
  • dovetailing
  • dubbing
  • duplicate
  • egalitarian
  • equaling
  • equalling
  • equivalent
  • evenly matched
  • extending
  • falling in with
  • fifty-fifty
  • fitting
  • fixing
  • furnishing
  • giving
  • going
  • granting
  • harmonious
  • harmonizing
  • homologous
  • identic
  • identical
  • in agreement
  • in rapport
  • indistinguishable
  • invariable
  • jibing
  • level
  • like
  • lining up
  • look-alike
  • matched
  • matching
  • naming
  • offering
  • one and the same
  • parallel
  • paralleling
  • presenting
  • proffering
  • proportionate
  • providing
  • registering
  • rhyming
  • riming
  • same
  • same difference
  • setting
  • showing
  • similar
  • sorting
  • spit and image
  • squaring
  • stack up with
  • suitable
  • supplying
  • sympathetic
  • tallying
  • tantamount
  • to the same degree
  • two peas in pod
  • uniform
  • unvarying
  • vesting

accrediting

  • accepting
  • acclaiming
  • acknowledging
  • adulating
  • affirming
  • allowing
  • applauding
  • approbating
  • approving
  • ascribing
  • assigning
  • associating
  • attaching
  • attributing
  • authorizing
  • ballyhooing
  • belauding
  • blaming
  • blessing
  • bravoing
  • canonizing
  • celebrating
  • certifying
  • chalking up
  • charging
  • chartering
  • cheering
  • clapping
  • clearing
  • commending
  • commissioning
  • confirming
  • connecting
  • cracking up
  • credentialing
  • credentialling
  • crediting
  • deifying
  • emblazoning
  • empowering
  • enabling
  • endorsing
  • enfranchising
  • entitling
  • eulogizing
  • extolling
  • favoring
  • finalizing
  • flattering
  • formalizing
  • glorifying
  • hailing
  • homologating
  • idolizing
  • imputing
  • inaugurating
  • indorsing
  • inducting
  • initialing
  • initialling
  • initiating
  • installing
  • instating
  • investing
  • lauding
  • laying
  • legalizing
  • letting
  • licencing
  • licensing
  • linking
  • magnifying
  • okaying
  • overpraising
  • passing
  • permitting
  • praising
  • privileging
  • putting down
  • qualifying
  • ratifying
  • reapproving
  • recommending
  • referring
  • rubber-stamping
  • saluting
  • sanctifying
  • sanctioning
  • signing
  • singing
  • supporting
  • swearing in
  • touting
  • validating
  • vesting
  • warranting

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