raving as a noun: - 1
as a adverb: - 1
raving
noun
1 raving
Declaiming wildly.
Roget 503:
disordered reason,
disordered intellect;
diseased mind,
unsound mind,
abnormal mind;
derangement,
unsoundness;
psychosis;
neurosis;
cognitive disorder;
affective disorder†.
insanity,
lunacy;
madness
etc.
adj.;
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†.
vertigo,
dizziness,
swimming;
sunstroke,
coup de soleil [Fr.],
siriasis†.
fanaticism,
infatuation,
craze;
oddity,
eccentricity,
twist,
monomania
(caprice)
608;
kleptodipsomania†;
hypochondriasis [Med.]
etc.
(low spirits)
837;
melancholia,
depression,
clinical depression,
severe depression;
hysteria;
amentia†.
screw loose,
tile loose,
slate loose;
bee in one's bonnet,
rats in the upper story.
dotage
etc.
(imbecility)
499.
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Roget 825:
excitability,
impetuosity,
vehemence;
boisterousness
etc.
adj.;
turbulence;
impatience,
intolerance,
nonendurance†;
irritability
etc.
(irascibility)
901;
itching
etc.
(desire)
865;
wincing;
disquiet,
disquietude;
restlessness;
fidgets,
fidgetiness;
agitation
etc.
(irregular motion)
315.
trepidation,
perturbation,
ruffle,
hurry,
fuss,
flurry;
fluster,
flutter;
pother,
stew,
ferment;
whirl;
buck fever;
hurry-skurry†,
thrill
etc.
(feeling)
821;
state of excitement,
fever of excitement;
transport.
passion,
excitement,
flush,
heat;
fever,
heat;
fire,
flame,
fume,
blood boiling;
tumult;
effervescence,
ebullition;
boiling over;
whiff,
gust,
story,
tempest;
scene,
breaking out,
burst,
fit,
paroxysm,
explosion;
outbreak,
outburst;
agony.
violence
etc.
173;
fierceness
etc.
adj.;
rage,
fury,
furor,
furore†,
desperation,
madness,
distraction,
raving,
delirium;
phrensy†,
frenzy,
hysterics;
intoxication;
tearing passion,
raging passion;
anger
etc.
900.
fascination,
infatuation,
fanaticism;
Quixotism,
Quixotry;
tete montee [Fr.].
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adverb
1 raving
In a raving manner:
— Raving mad.
synonym: ravingly.
adjective
Roget 821:
feeling
etc.
v.;
sentient;
sensuous;
sensorial,
sensory;
emotive,
emotional;
of feeling,
with feeling
etc.
n..
warm,
quick,
lively,
smart,
strong,
sharp,
acute,
cutting,
piercing,
incisive;
keen,
keen as a razor;
trenchant,
pungent,
racy,
piquant,
poignant,
caustic.
impressive,
deep,
profound,
indelible;
deep felt,
home felt,
heartfelt;
swelling,
soul-stirring,
deep-mouthed,
heart-expanding,
electric,
thrilling,
rapturous,
ecstatic.
earnest,
wistful,
eager,
breathless;
fervent;
fervid;
gushing,
passionate,
warm-hearted,
hearty,
cordial,
sincere,
zealous,
enthusiastic,
glowing,
ardent,
burning,
red-hot,
fiery,
flaming;
boiling over.
pervading,
penetrating,
absorbing;
rabid,
raving,
feverish,
fanatical,
hysterical;
impetuous
etc.
(excitable)
825.
impressed with,
moved with,
touched with,
affected with,
penetrated with,
seized with,
imbued with
etc.
82;
devoured by;
wrought up
etc.
(excited)
824;
struck all of a heap;
rapt;
in a quiver
etc.
n.;
enraptured
etc.
829.
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Roget 824:
excited
etc.
v.;
wrought up,
up the qui vive [Fr.],
astir,
sparkling;
in a quiver
etc.
821,
in a fever,
in a ferment,
in a blaze,
in a state of excitement;
in hysterics;
black in the face,
overwrought,
tense,
taught,
on a razor's edge;
hot,
red-hot,
flushed,
feverish;
all of a twitter,
in a pucker;
with quivering lips,
with tears in one's eyes.
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.
lost,
eperdu [Fr.],
tempest-tossed;
haggard;
ready to sink.
stung to the quick,
up,
on one's high ropes.
exciting,
absorbing,
riveting,
distracting
etc.
v.;
impressive,
warm,
glowing,
fervid,
swelling,
imposing,
spirit-stirring,
thrilling;
high-wrought;
soul-stirring,
soul-subduing;
heart-stirring,
heart-swelling,
heart-thrilling;
agonizing
etc.
(painful)
830;
telling,
sensational,
hysterical;
overpowering,
overwhelming;
more than flesh and blood can bear;
yellow.
piquant
etc.
(pungent)
392;
spicy,
appetizing,
provocative,
provoquant†,
tantalizing.
eager to go,
anxious to go,
chafing at the bit.
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Roget 503:
insane,
mad,
lunatic,
loony [Coll.];
crazy,
crazed,
aliene†,
non compos mentis;
not right,
cracked,
touched;
bereft of reason;
all possessed,
unhinged,
unsettled in one's mind;
insensate,
reasonless,
beside oneself,
demented,
daft;
phrenzied†,
frenzied,
frenetic;
possessed,
possessed with a devil;
deranged,
maddened,
moonstruck;
shatterpated†;
mad-brained,
scatter brained,
shatter brained,
crackbrained;
touched,
tetched [Coll.];
off one's head.
[behavior suggesting insanity]
maniacal;
delirious,
lightheaded,
incoherent,
rambling,
doting,
wandering;
frantic,
raving,
stark staring mad,
stark raving mad,
wild-eyed,
berserk;
delusional,
hallucinatory.
[behavior somewhat resembling insanity]
corybantic†,
dithyrambic;
rabid,
giddy,
vertiginous,
wild;
haggard,
mazed;
flighty;
distracted,
distraught;
depressed;
agitated,
hyped up;
bewildered
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
mad as a March hare,
mad as a hatter;
of unsound mind
etc.
n.;
touched in one's head,
wrong in one's head,
not right in one's head,
not in one's right mind,
not right in one's wits,
upper story;
out of one's mind,
out of one's wits,
out of one's skull [Coll.],
far gone,
out of one's senses,
out of one's wits;
not in one's right mind.
fanatical,
infatuated,
odd,
eccentric;
hypped†,
hyppish†;
spaced out [Coll.].
imbecile,
silly,
etc.
499.
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