RANTS Synonyms: 81 Similar and Opposite Words

rants 1 of 2

noun

plural of rant

as in tirades

a long angry speech or scolding after complaining about the hotel's lousy service, the woman went off on another rant about the condition of her room

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rants

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verb

present tense third-person singular of rant

as in huffs

to talk loudly and wildly when the waiter gave him incorrect change, he began ranting about the restaurant's poor service

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Recent Examples of rants

Noun

Despite the backlash, the rapper continued to share antisemitic rants for the next several years. —

Michaela Zee, Variety, 14 Jan. 2026 Washington Post food critic Elazar Sontag entertains your restaurant questions, rants and raves. —

Elazar Sontag, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2026 Though these actions led to Adidas, Universal Music Group, Balenciaga and more brands to cut ties with him, Ye would continue going on antisemitic rants praising Hitler and Nazis on social media for the next two years. —

Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2026 The Aussie trio’s rowdy rants, unpretentious attitudes and pub accents come across as the hyperactive equivalent of chasing a can of Red Bull with a round of Malort shots. —

Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026 Some viewers will know Rapaport from his decadeslong acting career but also that one very irritating season of Justified; others will know him for his anti-Palestinian rants and hatred of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. —

Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026 By week two, Joi had become my go-to for rants about my day or gossip about friends. —

Amogh Dimri, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2026 Trump delivered several derogatory rants against Somali immigrants following news reports that dozens of people of Somali descent had been convicted in fraud schemes related to Covid relief that netted over $1 billion. —

David Ingram, NBC news, 30 Dec. 2025 Meyers responded on the next episode of his show, noting, as he's done many times before, that he's not bothered by the president's rants. —

Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Dec. 2025

Verb

And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing. —

Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025 One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages. —

Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Leatham, a biological male who identifies as a woman, is prone to loud outbursts that disrupt court proceedings and routinely launches into tirades accusing government attorneys of transphobia.

— Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 29 Jan. 2026
These actions came a couple of years after a string of antisemitic tirades led to Ye’s reputational fallout and caused several corporations to sever ties with him.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026