ranting (at)
verb
as in scolding
to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings Grandmother ranted at us for skipping the family holiday gathering in favor of a ski trip Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- scolding
- lecturing
- calling down
- chewing out
- bawling out
- dressing down
- reprimanding
- laying into
- railing (at or against)
- reaming (out)
- criticizing
- blaming
- reading the riot act (to)
- taking to task
- upbraiding
- ragging
- berating
- rating
- attacking
- basting
- admonishing
- scoring
- mocking
- flaying
- chastising
- keelhauling
- jawing
- rebuking
- remonstrating (with)
- castigating
- reproaching
- hammering
- lambasting
- faulting
- tongue-lashing
- lacing (into)
- chiding
- vituperating
- slamming
- panning
- lashing
- reprehending
- knocking
- crucifying
- putting down
- condemning
- reviling
- disparaging
- assailing
- denouncing
- belittling
- scourging
- reproving
- excoriating
- blasting
- abusing
- censuring
- ridiculing
- haranguing
- scoffing
- bad-mouthing
- scorning
- dissing
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- approving
- indorsing
- endorsing
- sanctioning
- praising
- lauding
- extolling
- in sunder
- in support of
- in surgery
- in suspense
- in sync
- in synchrony with
- in syndication
- in tandem
- in tatters
- in tears
- in tempo
- in terminal decline
- in terms of
- in that
- in that case
- in that regard
- in that/this regard
- in the (first) flush of
- in the absence of
- in the abstract
- in the act
- in the act (of doing something)
- in the act of doing something
- in the affirmative
- in the aggregate