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• present participle of rave.

raving

American  

[rey-ving] / ˈreɪ vɪŋ /

adjective

1. talking wildly; delirious; frenzied.

   a raving maniac.

2. Informal. extraordinary or remarkable.

   a raving beauty.

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adverb

1. furiously or wildly.

   a remark that made me raving mad.

noun

• ravings
  plural

1. Usually ravings

   1. irrational, incoherent talk.

      Putting him in a straitjacket did not stop his ravings.

   2. wildly extravagant or outrageous talk; bombast.

raving British  

/ ˈreɪvɪŋ /

adjective

1. 1. delirious; frenzied

   2. ( as adverb )

      raving mad

2. informal (intensifier)

   a raving beauty

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noun

1. (usually plural) frenzied, irrational, or wildly extravagant talk or utterances

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• unraving
  adjective
• ravingly
  adverb

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• ravings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of raving

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English; see rave ¹, -ing ¹, -ing ²

Example Sentences

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raving ravings

"You don't have to look like everybody else. You don't have to be a raving beauty to be special and to be beautiful."

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

This, the author argues, has led to a loss of the innovation in music, fashion and art that raving with raucous strangers on sticky dance floors sometimes sparks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Coverage in the Post included stories of people raving that it was all “very cool” and “magical.”

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

He practises that technique a lot, if it goes in everyone's raving about him.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

Difficult enough to scramble a persons mind and leave him raving on a street comer?

From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead

Lawrence while Aunt Ada Doom injects a Gothic touch with her half-mad stare and ravings about “something nasty in the woodshed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Opponents of fluoridation have played on paranoid fears for decades, but into the 1960s, these were popularly dismissed as ravings from fringe organizations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

These do not appear to be the ravings of a lunatic.

From Salon ● May 4, 2024

All that can be dismissed as the ravings of the lunatic fringe, but it is being taken seriously in Jordan and Egypt.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023

So above the ravings and protests of the distraught Prince of Demons, the king’s men removed the bonds from the king and wrapped them twice round the imposter.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny