ranted; ranting; rants
1
intransitive
: to complain loudly, angrily, or unreasonably
… films and books ranting against corporations and the gun lobby …—
Joel Stein
Joel Stein"You can rant and rave all you want," she said, "but it's not going to change things."
2
transitive + intransitive
: to talk or recite in a noisy, excited, or bombastic manner
… barkers ranting at the crowds …—Gerald Shapiro
Gerald Shapiro… the actor who rants Shakespeare …—H. E. Clurman
H. E. Clurman
ranter
noun
1
a(1)
: a long, angry speech or piece of writing : tirade
went on a rant about the price of gas
… in Walden's transcendental rants I found all my angsty teenage convictions gloriously and authoritatively ratified.—M. Allen Cunningham
M. Allen Cunningham
(2)
: a bombastic extravagant speech
… two other boys … happened on a street orator; tiring of the rant, one boy pushed the speaker's hat off with a stick …—Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
b
: bombastic extravagant language
The speeches were full of rant, cant, and vanity …—Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin2
dialectal British
: a rousing good time
Examples of rant in a Sentence
Verb
“You can rant and rave all you want,” she said, “but it's not going to change things.”
He ranted that they were out to get him.
Noun
after complaining about the hotel's lousy service, the woman went off on another rant about the condition of her room
instead of addressing the current crisis, the mayor's speech was a lot of rant emphasizing his accomplishments
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Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
This guy is, apparently, in a room ranting about everything else.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2025
Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Dec. 2025
Leach, who died three years ago, coached at Texas Tech, Washington State and Mississippi State and railed against a playoff field being selected by a committee during a 2017 rant.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 5 Dec. 2025
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Verb
At another time, a perpetually anxious comedian who can’t keep from ranting about his paranoid worries about the end of the world probably would not feel like such a helpful guide to life.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
This guy is, apparently, in a room ranting about everything else.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
The host and White House correspondent had a curt reaction to the president's lengthy social media rant.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Dec. 2025
Leach, who died three years ago, coached at Texas Tech, Washington State and Mississippi State and railed against a playoff field being selected by a committee during a 2017 rant.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 5 Dec. 2025
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“Rant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rant. Accessed 10 Dec. 2025.
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: loud and wild speech
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