RAVING


Meaning of RAVING in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

ranting and raving

Why don’t you stop ranting and raving for a minute and listen?

stark raving mad (= completely crazy )

My friends all think I’m stark raving mad .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

stark raving mad/bonkers

All of this doesn't mean he wasn't stark raving mad, and just putting on.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A bit tricky under the circumstances, although I've never actually done it with a raving loony.

If only she could have waved a magic wand to turn the fat girl into a raving beauty.

It's nice to know you think your daughter's a raving drug addict and a tart.

It was like a raving nightmare.

She'd never been a raving beauty, it was true, but at the moment she looked a wreck.

She was no raving beauty, didn't have a model-like figure - all she'd had was some money.

The man was a raving sadist, she thought, and then realised it was a requirement of his job.

Unless you are a raving genius, doing that is not a good idea.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.