Related Words:
- raving
collapse - declaiming wildly; "the raving of maniacs"
- talking or behaving irrationally; "a raving lunatic"
- in a raving manner; "raving mad" related words >
- Dionysiac,
- abandoned,
- afebrile delirium,
- amok,
- anarchic,
- angry,
- babble,
- babbling,
- bacchic,
- balderdash,
- beaming,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- blooming,
- bluster,
- blustering,
- blusterous,
- blustery,
- boisterous,
- bombast,
- brainstorm,
- bright,
- brilliant,
- bullying,
- bunk,
- bunkum,
- carried away,
- chaotic,
- claptrap,
- corybantic,
- crazed,
- crazy,
- dazzling,
- delirious,
- deliriousness,
- delirium,
- demoniac,
- desperate,
- devastating,
- distracted,
- divine,
- dizzy,
- ecstatic,
- enraged,
- enraptured,
- extraordinary,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fierce,
- fighting mad,
- flatulence,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- fulminating,
- fuming,
- furious,
- fustian,
- gab,
- gabble,
- gibberish,
- giddy,
- glamorous,
- glorious,
- glowing,
- gorgeous,
- grandiloquence,
- great,
- haggard,
- heavenly,
- hectoring,
- hellish,
- hog-wild,
- hopping mad,
- hot air,
- howling,
- hyperbole,
- hysterical,
- in a rage,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- incoherence,
- incoherent,
- infuriate,
- infuriated,
- insane,
- insensate,
- intoxicated,
- irrational,
- killing,
- lightheaded,
- like one possessed,
- lingual delirium,
- mad,
- madding,
- maenadic,
- magniloquence,
- maniac,
- maniacal,
- manic,
- mindless,
- noisy,
- off,
- orgasmic,
- orgastic,
- orgiastic,
- outstanding,
- pandemoniac,
- phenomenal,
- pomposity,
- possessed,
- puffery,
- rabid,
- radiant,
- raging,
- rambling,
- ramping,
- rant,
- ranting,
- rare,
- ravening,
- raving mad,
- ravished,
- ravishing,
- resplendent,
- rhetoric,
- rip-roaring,
- roaring,
- roaring mad,
- rodomontade,
- roistering,
- roisterous,
- rollicking,
- running mad,
- running wild,
- savage,
- shining,
- sparkling,
- splendid,
- splendorous,
- splendrous,
- stark-raving mad,
- storming,
- stormy,
- striking,
- stunning,
- sublime,
- swaggering,
- swashbuckling,
- swashing,
- tempestuous,
- transported,
- troublous,
- tumultuous,
- turbulent,
- uncommon,
- uncontrollable,
- unusual,
- uproarious,
- vaporing,
- violent,
- wandering,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking
- metaphor
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- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity related words >
- accordance,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogue,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- change,
- changeling,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copy,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- double,
- dummy,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- exclamation,
- fake,
- figure of speech,
- fill-in,
- gemination,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- image,
- imagery,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- proxy,
- reference,
- regression,
- relation,
- relief,
- repetition,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- spoonerism,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- syllepsis,
- symbol,
- symbolism,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- trope,
- trope of comparison,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- sensationalism
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- the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation"
- subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes related words >
- Barnumism,
- Thespian art,
- affectation,
- aggrandizement,
- amateur theatricals,
- amplification,
- ballyhoo,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- blatancy,
- blood and thunder,
- blowing up,
- brazenness,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- colorfulness,
- convolution,
- crudeness,
- dash,
- dazzle,
- dazzlingness,
- demonstrativeness,
- dilatation,
- dilation,
- dramatic art,
- dramatic form,
- dramatic irony,
- dramatic stroke,
- dramatic structure,
- dramaticism,
- dramatics,
- dramatism,
- dramaturgy,
- emotional appeal,
- emotionalism,
- emotionality,
- emotionalization,
- emotionalizing,
- emotiveness,
- emotivity,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- exaggerating,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- expansion,
- extravagance,
- extravaganza,
- extravagation,
- extreme,
- flagrancy,
- flamboyance,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- fulsomeness,
- gaiety,
- garishness,
- gaudery,
- gaudiness,
- glare,
- glitter,
- gorgeousness,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- heightening,
- high-flown diction,
- histrionics,
- histrionism,
- huckstering,
- human interest,
- hyperbole,
- hyperbolism,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- inordinacy,
- jauntiness,
- jazziness,
- lexiphanicism,
- loftiness,
- loudness,
- love interest,
- luridness,
- magnification,
- magniloquence,
- making scenes,
- melodrama,
- melodramatics,
- mere rhetoric,
- meretriciousness,
- nonrationalness,
- obtrusiveness,
- orotundity,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- overemphasis,
- overestimation,
- overkill,
- overstatement,
- panache,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- play construction,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- prodigality,
- profuseness,
- prose run mad,
- puffery,
- puffing up,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- sententiousness,
- shamelessness,
- showiness,
- sportiness,
- staginess,
- stiltedness,
- stretching,
- superlative,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- tawdriness,
- theatricalism,
- theatricality,
- theatricals,
- theatricism,
- theatrics,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- touting,
- travesty,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unreasoningness,
- visceralness,
- vulgarness,
- yellow journalism
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- abstractionism,
- abuse of terms,
- ambages,
- ambagious,
- anfractuosity,
- anfractuous,
- bending,
- braiding,
- catachresis,
- circuitous,
- circuitousness,
- circumambages,
- circumbendibus,
- circumlocution,
- circumlocutory,
- circumvolution,
- coloring,
- contorting,
- convolution,
- convolutional,
- crinkle,
- crinkling,
- curving,
- deformation,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- distortion,
- eisegesis,
- enlacement,
- entwinement,
- entwining,
- errant,
- erratic,
- error,
- exaggeration,
- excursive,
- expressionism,
- fabric,
- false coloring,
- falsification,
- flexuose,
- flexuosity,
- flexuous,
- flexuousness,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hyperbole,
- inaccuracy,
- indirect,
- injustice,
- interknitting,
- interlacement,
- interlacery,
- interlacing,
- intertexture,
- interthreading,
- intertieing,
- intertwinement,
- intertwining,
- intertwisting,
- interweavement,
- interweaving,
- intorsion,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involution,
- involutional,
- knitting,
- labyrinthine,
- lacing,
- litotes,
- malentendu,
- malobservation,
- mazy,
- meander,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- miscitation,
- miscoloring,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misdrawing,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mispainting,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misrendering,
- misreport,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- misteaching,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misuse of words,
- nonrealism,
- out-of-the-way,
- overdrawing,
- overstatement,
- perversion,
- plaiting,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rivose,
- rivulation,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- sinuate,
- sinuation,
- sinuose,
- sinuosity,
- sinuous,
- sinuousness,
- slanting,
- slinkiness,
- snakiness,
- snaky,
- squeezing,
- stray,
- swerving,
- texture,
- tissue,
- torsion,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortility,
- tortuosity,
- tortuous,
- tortuousness,
- torturing,
- turning,
- twining,
- twisty,
- understatement,
- undirected,
- undulation,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- warp and woof,
- warpage,
- wave,
- waving,
- weave,
- weaving,
- web,
- weftage,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathing,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- wrenching,
- zigzag
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