v. 1 declaim, hold forth, expound, expatiate, orate, perorate, pontificate, trumpet, preach, harangue, lecture, deliver (oneself of) a tirade or diatribe or speech, speak The minister ranted pompously about his accomplishments 2 vociferate, bluster, rave, rant and rave, bellow, rage The master kept ranting on about his newspaper having been creased
n. 3 tirade, philippic, bluster, flatulence, rhetoric, bombast, pomposity, turgidity, gasconade, rodomontade, theatrics, histrionics, act As he carried on his rant, the theatre gradually emptied till he was alone