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| Main Entry: | diatribe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harangue, criticism |
| Synonyms: | abuse, denunciation, disputation, invective, objection, onslaught, philippic, stricture, tirade, vituperation, castigation, jeremiad, reviling, screed |
| Antonyms: | praise, recommendation |
| Main Entry: | fulmination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tirade, condemnation |
| Synonyms: | blast, curse, denunciation, diatribe, discharge, explosion, intimidation, invective, obloquy, outburst, philippic, warning, reprobation |
| Antonyms: | compliment, defense, flattery, praise, support |
| Main Entry: | harangue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | long lecture |
| Synonyms: | address, declamation, diatribe, discourse, exhortation, hassle, oration, philippic, sermon, speech, spiel*, tirade, chewing out, jeremiad, reading out, screed, spouting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invective |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbal abuse |
| Synonyms: | accusation, blame, blasphemy, censure, condemnation, contumely, denunciation, diatribe, epithet, obloquy, philippic, reproach, sarcasm, tirade, tongue-lashing, vituperation, berating, billingsgate, castigation, jeremiad, revilement, scurrility, vilification |
| Antonyms: | compliment, flattery, praise |
| Main Entry: | rant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yelling, raving |
| Synonyms: | bluster, bombast, diatribe, fustian, harangue, oration, philippic, rhetoric, rodomontade, tirade, rhapsody, vociferation |
| Antonyms: | calm, quiet |
| Main Entry: | tirade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse, outburst |
| Synonyms: | anger, censure, condemnation, denunciation, diatribe, dispute, fulmination, harangue, invective, lecture, malediction, philippic*, ranting, sermon, tongue-lashing, vituperation, berating, jeremiad, revilement, screed |
| Antonyms: | calm, harmony, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ban |
| Synonyms: | anathema, condemnation, curse, denunciation, diatribe, excommunication, execration, imprecation, malediction, obloquy, threatening, proscription, threat of punishment |
| Main Entry: | tongue-lashing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reprimand |
| Synonyms: | diatribe, dressing-down, scolding, bawling-out, berating, castigation, chiding, objurgation, talking to, upbraiding |
| Main Entry: | blame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | condemnation |
| Synonyms: | accusation, animadversion, arraignment, attack, censure, charge, complaint, criticism, denunciation, depreciation, diatribe, disapproval, disfavor, disparagement, implication, imputation, indictment, invective, obloquy, opposition, rebuke, remonstrance, reprimand, reproach, reproof, repudiation, slur, tirade, attribution, castigation, chiding, disapprobation, expostulation, exprobation, impeachment, incrimination, inculpation, objurgation, recrimination, reprehension, reprobation |
| Antonyms: | applause, commendation, exaltation, exoneration, praise, thanks, exculpation |
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal talk to audience |
| Synonyms: | address, appeal, bombast, commentary, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, eulogy, exhortation, harangue, homily, invocation, keynote, lecture, opus, oration, oratory, panegyric, paper, parlance, parley, pep talk*, pitch, recitation, rhetoric, salutation, sermon, spiel*, stump*, tirade, valedictory, allocution, chalk talk, prelection |
| Antonyms: | listening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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