RIPSNORTER Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

ripsnorter

noun

ˈrip-ˈsnȯr-tər

Definition of ripsnorter

as in beauty

something very good of its kind had high hopes that the football game would be a ripsnorter, but it turned out to be a real snoozer

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Recent Examples of ripsnorter Will relish manager Brendan Rodgers style of play, and could have another ripsnorter of a campaign. — SI.com, 6 July 2019

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Noun

The title character and his fellow physicists spend much of their early years refusing to work for the Soviet military machine; building bombs would corrupt the purity and beauty of their science.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026
It’s reflected in toys like squishy NeeDoh cubes and beauty products like jelly cleansers.

— Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of beauty

Noun

Each vignette of time reveals how time, our upbringing, and even our individual dreams shape the path of our lives and who ultimately ends up beside us for the ride.

— Emmalee Reed, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
In childhood, in adulthood, in her old age, Evans was besotted by dreams, turbulent, awesome, pictorial dreams.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of dream

Noun

Here, age-old traditions fuse with contemporary flavors, archaeological marvels meet modernist museums, rugged peaks are juxtaposed against verdant plains, and stretches of sandy shorelines lead to charming inland villages.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
In 1959, Disneyland debuted an attraction that was, at the time, a technical and fantastical marvel.

— Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of marvel

Noun

Of course all the business between Patricia and the Boogeyman is just an excuse for Widow’s Bay to stage a corker of a send-up of 1978’s Halloween and slasher movies of its ilk.

— Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 June 2026
The breakfast buffet is supremely surreal A big part of every season of The White Lotus is the breakfast buffet, and the Martinez’s daily extravaganza is a corker.

— Radhika Seth, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2026

Definition of corker

Noun

Perhaps unlike anyone else in country music beyond maybe Brantley Gilbert, Hardy makes fairly straightforward country radio fare while also making straight-up heavy metal rippers.

— Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 5 Sep. 2026
The biggest chase of all is the Black bordered one-of-ones, which has been prone to catch pack rippers off guard as they’re focused on adding to their sticker books.

— Andrew Mackie, New York Times, 19 May 2026

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