'Raving' definitions:
Definition of 'raving'
From: WordNet
adverb
In a raving manner; "raving mad" [syn: raving, ravingly]
noun
Declaiming wildly; "the raving of maniacs"
Definition of 'Raving'
From: GCIDE
- Raving \Rav"ing\ (r[=a]v"[i^]ng), a. Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic. -- {Rav"ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Raving'
From: GCIDE
- 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 intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging, as a madman. [1913 Webster]
- In our madness evermore we rave. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast? --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To rush wildly or furiously. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; -- followed by about, of, or on; as, he raved about her beauty. [1913 Webster]
- The hallowed scene Which others rave of, though they know it not. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'raving'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Dionysiac,
- 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