Raving

Definition: Raving

Raving

Adjective

1. Talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic".

Adverb

1. In a raving manner; "raving mad".

Noun

1. Declaiming wildly; "the raving of maniacs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "raving" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Raving

Divestment

In a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit; in puris naturalibus; with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked; bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand; out at elbows; barefoot; bareback, barebacked; leafless, napless, hairless.

Excitability

Violence; fierceness; Adjective: rage, fury, furor, furore, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy, frenzy, hysterics; intoxication; tearing passion, raging passion; anger.

Excitation

Flaming; boiling over; ebullient, seething; foaming at the mouth; fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal.

Feeling

Pervading, penetrating, absorbing; rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical; impetuous; (excitable).

Insanity

Insanity, lunacy; madness; Adjective: mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation, dementia, demency; phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain storm.

Maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory.

Crosswords: Raving

No, I doubt it, seeing you're all raving mad (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

I made reservations at a wonderful new French resturaunt on Broome Street, everyone is raving about it. A friend of mine was there last week (Style and Substance; writing credit: James Grissom)

'Cause when you're happy you're not such a raving bitch (All My Children; writing credit: John L. Goldwater)

Not all women are raving bloody lesbians, you know (The Killing of Sister George; writing credit: Lukas Heller; Frank Marcus)

Stark raving sane (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; writing credit: Tom Stoppard;)

Stork Raving Mad (1958)

Stark Raving Mad (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A raving monarchist (reference)

• Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture (reference)

• In the Pink: The Raving Beauties Choose Poems from the Show ...and More (reference)

• No Holds Barred: Raving Beauties (reference)

• Raving Autumn and Other Stories (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Fourthly, But if the unlawful acts done by the magistrate be maintained (by the power he has got), and the remedy which is due by law, be by the same power obstructed; yet the right of resisting, even in such manifest acts of tyranny, will not suddenly, or on slight occasions, disturb the government: for if it reach no farther than some private men's cases, though they have a right to defend themselves, and to recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them; yet the right to do so will not easily engage them in a contest, wherein they are sure to perish; it being as impossible for one, or a few oppressed men to disturb the government, where the body of the people do not think themselves concerned in it, as for a raving mad-man, or heady malcontent to overturn a well settled state; the people being as little apt to follow the one, as the other. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Jean Valjean stared at him, and thought that he was raving.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "raving": raving mad ♦ stark raving mad. Additional references.

Ending with "raving": a-raving.

Albanian

përçartje (delirium, ramble, rant, rave), përçart (wandering), në jerm (delirious). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهتاج (agitated, boiling, edgy, emotional, excited, irritable, nervous, upset, wrought up), ‏منفعل بشدة, ‏معربد (bacchanalian), ‏هذيان (babbler, hallucination, irrational talk, piffle, rave), ‏جامح (headstrong, inordinate, mad, madcap, stubborn, unruly, wild, wilful). (various references)

Bulgarian 

очарователен (adorable, alluring, bewitching, captivating, charming, darling, delightful, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, lovely, orphic, ravishing, stunning, sweet, winning, winsome), не на себе си (out of his senses), бълнуващ (delirious), бълнуване (delirium), бушуващ, беснеещ, пленителен (alluring, captivating, charming, enchanting, fascinating, killing, ravishing, taking). (various references)

Chinese 

叫嚷 (Raved, rave-up). (various references)

Czech

rozzuřený (enraged, exasperating, furious, infuriating, raving mad, shirty), nepříèetný (berserk, not all there, raving mad, unsound). (various references)

Finnish

raivohullu (raving mad, violent lunatic). (various references)

French

divagation (rambling), délirant (rapt). (various references)

German

rasend (berserk, burning, desperate, excruciating, frenetic, frenzied, furious, infuriated, livid, rabid, racking, raging, rapturous, scorching, splitting, tearing, terrific, wild), Rabiat (aggressive, breakneck, brutal, cut throat, furious, rough, ruthless, violent, wild). (various references)

Greek 

έξαλλοσ (aboil, berserk, delirious, distracted, frantic, furious, hay wire), παραπληρών (raver), παραλήρημα (delirium, frenzy, furore). (various references)

Hebrew 

משתולל (frenzied, rampant, riotous), מש�'ע (infuriating, maddening). (various references)

Hungarian

félrebeszélés (brainstorm, brain-storm, deliria, delirium), ömlengés (effusion, gush, outpouring), összefüggéstelen beszéd (maunderings, vindication). (various references)

Italian

rabbioso (angry, furious, mad, rabid, violent), smanioso (clamoring, rampaging), pazzo (Batty, bedlamite, crazy, distracted, fool, frenzied, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madly, madman, madmen, maniac, maniacal, moony, off one's rocker, potty, screwy, wacky, wild), furioso (furious, ireful, mad, rabid, raging, violent, wild, wrathful), delirio (delirium, rave), delirante (delirious, wandering). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'れ狂う風 (raving wind). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あれくるうかぜ (raving wind). (various references)

Manx

branlaadys (delerium, dotage, dreaminess, hallucination), branlaadee (confusion, hallucinate, rambling, wandering of mind). (various references)

Pig Latin

avingray.(various references)

Portuguese

louco (brain sick, bughouse, crack-brained, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, distraught, far gone, fey, fool, foolish, frenetic, insane, loco, lunatic, mad, madman, maniac, maniacal, nuts, phrenetic, wacky), furioso (angry, berserk, delirious, distracted, furious, hot, mad, rabid, raging, rampageous, rampant, savage, tearing, violent, wilding), frenesi (frenzy, furor, furore, fury, phrenitis, rave), excitação (commotion, fidget, fire, flurry, flush, fluster, flutter, freak-out, fuss, gale, passion, rampage, rave, state, stew, stimulus, thrill, transport, uproar, warmth), divagação (abracadabra, digression, divagation, excursion, excursus, rave), desvario (rave), delirante (delirious, frenzied, light-headed), delírio (frenzy, furor, furore, light-headedness, phrenitis, rave). (various references)

Romanian

nebunie (craze, craziness, dementia, distraction, Folly, foolery, foolishness, frenzy, hobby, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, mischief, phrensy), nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, crazy, daft, delirious, demented, demoniac, distracted, distraught, extravagant, fool, foolish, frantic, frenzied, infatuated, insane, lunatic, mad, mad about, madcap, madman, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, reckless, unruly, wild), dement (crazy, demented, insane, mad, madman), delirant (delirious, frantic, light-headed, wild), delir (delirium, ecstasy, enthusiasm, madness, mania), aiurealã (babble, confusion, flurry, fuss, hubbub, muss, rigmarole, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, twaddle). (various references)

Russian 

бредящий, бредовой, бредить восхитительный, бред (d.t.'s, delirium, ramble, rave, wanderings). (various references)

Scottish

braolaid. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pomaman (frantic, frenetic, rabid), oduševljeno pričanje, koji bunca, izvanredan (extraordinary, masterly, nifty, outstanding, remarkable, spanking, super, superb, terrific, whacking), buncanje. (various references)

Spanish

delirio (delirium, frenzy, rant, rave, ravings, wanderings). (various references)

Swedish

yrande (delirious), fullständigt (absolutely, all ends up, clear, completely, completly, entirely, fairly, flat, full, fully, in full, outright, sheer, stark, to the full, wholly), fantastisk (almighty, awe inspiring, awesome, big deal, breathtaking, cracking, divine, fab, fabulous, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, incredible, jolly, lovely, magnificent, perfect, smashing, stunning, super, tall, terrific, tremendous, whimsical, wild-eyed, wizard, wonderful). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งเพ้อคลั่ง. (various references)

Turkish

zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, ravings, rot, rubbish, stuff, tommyrot, twaddle), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), olağanüstü (above the ordinary, breathtaking, classical, dreamy, exceeding, exceptional, extra, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, fantastical, glorious, huge, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, out of this world, paramount, phenomenal, portentous, preternatural, prodigious, rare, remarkable, shining, smashing, special, spectacular, splendid, sublime, supernatural, supernormal, terrific, unearthly), kudurmuş (mad, rabid), gözü dönmüş (furious, ravenous), fantastik (fanciful, fantastic, fantastical), deli saçması (ravings, rigmarole, utter nonsense), çılgınlık (craze, craziness, delirium, distraction, escapade, fad, foolhardiness, frenzy, fury, lunacy, madness, nuts, rabidness, rave, ravings, vagary, wildness), çılgın (berserk, bonkers, crackpot, crazed, crazy, delirious, demented, demon, demoniac, desperado, distracted, foolhardy, frenetic, frenzied, insane, kook, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, moonstruck, nut, phrenetic, possessed, rip roaring, ripsnorter, scatty, wild). (various references)

Ukrainian

шаленство (chafe, fury, phrensy, rage, rampage, vehemence), маячний, марення (delirium, ramble, rave, wanderings), буйний (blusterous, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, riotous, rip roaring, roistering, turbulent). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự mê thích, sự đắm đuối. (various references)

arrepticium, dementes, dementia, dementis. (various references)

reverie. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "raving": ravingly, ravings. (additional references)

Words ending with "raving": braving, craving, depraving, engraving, graving, outbraving, outraving, photoengraving, reengraving. (additional references)

Words containing "raving": cravings, engravings, photoengravings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Raving" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arvins, aving, ravan, raveing, ravi, Ravignan, ravins, Ravn, ravni, Ravno, ravon, Ravony, Razvan, reaving, reving, rieving, rivin, Rivina, rovint, Ruvina. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: garni, grain, invar, ravin, virga.

-2 letters: agin, airn, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring, vagi, vain, vair, vang, viga, vina.

-3 letters: ain, air, ani, gan, gar, gin, nag, rag, ran, ria, rig, rin, van, var, via, vig.

-4 letters: ag, ai, an, ar, in, na.

+1 letter: braving, carving, craving, graving, ravings, reaving, varying, vinegar.

+2 letters: arriving, averring, averting, bravoing, carvings, cravings, favoring, graviton, grievant, havering, ravaging, raveling, ravening, ravingly, ravining, repaving, rivaling, savoring, starving, vaporing, vinegars, vinegary, vintager, virginal, wavering.

+3 letters: adverting, approving, archiving, averaging, beavering, bereaving, caverning, cavorting, clavering, cravening, depraving, engraving, favouring, flavoring, grapevine, gravamina, graveling, gravitons, grievance, grievants, laveering, marveling, navigator, outraving, overawing, pervading, quavering, ravelings, ravelling, ravenings, ravishing, reavowing, reshaving, revaluing, revamping, revealing, reweaving, rivalling, savouring, slavering, traveling, unvarying, vainglory, vaporings, vapouring, variating, varooming, varyingly, vibrating, vinegared, vintagers, virginals, vulgarian.