'Tirade' definitions:
Definition of 'tirade'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Tirade'
From: GCIDE
- Tirade \Ti*rade"\, n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See Tear to rend, and cf. Tire to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. [1913 Webster]
- Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. --Quarterly Review. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tirade'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundance,
- abuse,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- amplitude,
- assailing,
- assault,
- attack,
- bawl,
- berating,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- censure,
- chalk talk,
- cloud of words,
- condemnation,
- contumely,
- copiousness,
- cry,
- debate,
- declamation,
- denunciation,
- diatribe,
- diffuseness,
- diffusion,
- diffusiveness,
- dolorous tirade,
- effusion,
- effusiveness,
- eulogy,
- execration,
- exhortation,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- fecundity,
- fertility,
- filibuster,
- fluency,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- formlessness,
- funeral oration,
- groan,
- gush,
- gushing,
- harangue,
- hard words,
- hortatory address,
- howl,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- invective,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- keen,
- lament,
- lecture,
- logorrhea,
- macrology,
- moan,
- murmur,
- mutter,
- onslaught,
- oration,
- outburst,
- outcry,
- outpour,
- overflow,
- palilogy,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- plaint,
- planctus,
- pleonasm,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- prodigality,
- productivity,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- prolificacy,
- prolificity,
- public speech,
- rampancy,
- rankness,
- rant,
- rating,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- redundancy,
- reiteration,
- reiterativeness,
- repetition for effect,
- repetitiveness,
- revilement,
- rodomontade,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- scream,
- screed,
- sermon,
- set speech,
- sob,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- superflux,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- talkativeness,
- tautology,
- teemingness,
- tongue-lashing,
- ululation,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vilification,
- vituperation,
- wail,
- wail of woe,
- whimper,
- whine,
- yawp,
- yowl