Someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner.

synonym: raver.

Roget 584: loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness etc. adj.; garrulity; multiloquence^†, much speaking.    jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, twattle, rattle; caquet^†, caquetterie [Fr.]; blabber, bavardage^†, bibble-babble^†, gibble-gabble^†; small talk etc. (converse) 588.    fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words; flux de bouche [Fr.], flux de mots [Fr.]; copia verborum [Lat.], cacoethes loquendi [Lat.]; furor loquendi [Lat.]; verbosity etc. (diffuseness) 573; gift of the gab etc. (eloquence) 582.    talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler etc. v.; rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser^†, driveler; blatherskite [U.S.]; gossip etc. (converse) 588; magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles [Fr.].    ... show more

Roget 988: impiety; sin etc. 945; irreverence; profaneness etc. adj.; profanity, profanation; blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege; scoffing etc. v.. [feigned piety] hypocrisy etc. (falsehood) 544; pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion^†, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness etc. adj.; pharisaism, precisianism^†; sabbatism^†, sabbatarianism^†; odium theologicum [Lat.], sacerdotalism^†; bigotry etc. (obstinacy) 606, (prejudice) 481; blue laws.    hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation.    sinner etc. 949; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist^†; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite etc. (dissembler) 548; Tartufe^†, Mawworm^†.    bigot; saint [Iron.]; Pharisee; sabbatarian^†, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist^†, precisian^†, religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado^†.    the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one; children of darkness.    ... show more