Rant vs. Rage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rant and Rage
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Rant
To speak or write in an angry or emotionally charged manner; rave.
Rage
Violent, explosive anger.
Rant
To express at length a complaint or negative opinion
"He could rant on the subject of physician-assisted illness" (Paul Theroux).
Rage
A fit of anger.
Rant
To utter or express by ranting
"Adams's fellow Federalists ranted that he was mentally unfit to be president" (Susan Dunn).
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Rage
Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
Rant
Angry, emotionally charged, or tediously negative speech or writing
A speech that was more rant than reason.
Rage
A burning desire; a passion
A rage for innovation in music.
Rant
An example of such speech or writing
A rant against the university's policies.
Rage
A current, eagerly adopted fashion; a fad or craze
When torn jeans were all the rage.
Rant
Chiefly British Wild or uproarious merriment.
Rage
To speak or act in violent anger
Raged at the mindless bureaucracy.
Rant
To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
Rage
To move with great violence or intensity
A storm raged through the mountains.
Rant
To disseminate one's own opinions in a - typically - one-sided, strong manner.
Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention.
Rage
To spread or prevail forcefully
The plague raged for months.
Rant
To criticize by ranting.
Rage
Violent uncontrolled anger.
Rant
(dated) To speak extravagantly, as in merriment.
Rage
A current fashion or fad.
Miniskirts were all the rage back then.
Rant
To dance rant steps.
Rage
An exciting and boisterous party.
Rant
A criticism done by ranting.
Rage
(obsolete) Any vehement passion.
Rant
A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.
Rage
(intransitive) To act or speak in heightened anger.
Rant
A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.
Rage
To move with great violence, as a storm etc.
Rant
To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.
Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes!
Rage
To party hard; to have a good time.
Rant
High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
This is a stoical rant, without any foundation in the nature of man or reason of things.
Rage
To enrage.
Rant
A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
Rage
Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will.
He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
Convulsed with a rage of grief.
Rant
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Rage
Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury.
Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
Rant
Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
Rage
A violent or raging wind.
Rage
The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.
Rage
To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion.
When one so great begins to rage, he is huntedEven to falling.
Rage, rage against the dying of the lightDo not go gentle into that good night.
Rage
To be violent and tumultuous; to be violently driven or agitated; to act or move furiously; as, the raging sea or winds.
Why do the heathen rage?
The madding wheelsOf brazen chariots raged; dire was the noise.
Rage
To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with destruction or fatal effect; as, the plague raged in Cairo.
Rage
To toy or act wantonly; to sport.
Rage
To enrage.
Rage
A feeling of intense anger;
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
His face turned red with rage
Rage
A state of extreme anger;
She fell into a rage and refused to answer
Rage
Something that is desired intensely;
His rage for fame destroyed him
Rage
Violent state of the elements;
The sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks
Rage
An interest followed with exaggerated zeal;
He always follows the latest fads
It was all the rage that season
Rage
Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
Rage
Be violent; as of fires and storms
Rage
Feel intense anger;
Rage against the dying of the light!
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