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