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• present participle of rave.

raving

American  

[ray-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

And since raving about his PortaSplit on X, he has also been co-opted into the community - he says he has been receiving curious messages about the air-conditioner every day.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

With that context, I’ve been literally raving over “Butterfly Jam,” a film so fundamentally misguided it could almost be the cineaste version of “The Room.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

He is mad, stark, raving mad, and it’s no use my trying to stop him.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

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

No one paid any attention to his political ravings back then.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2022

The estimates provide a good example of how numerical horse sense can check pseudoscientific ravings.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos