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rabbit, n. hare, coney, bunny, cottontail.
rabbitry, n. warren.
rabble, n. mob, rabblerout, populace.
rabid, a. violent, raging, furious; intolerant, fanatical, uncompromising, rampant.
rabies, n. hydrophobia. Associated words: rabid, rabietic, hydrophobic, antihydrophobic.
race, n. Associated words: ethnology, ethnography, ethnologist, ethnic, racial, ethnogeny, holethnos, holethnic, interracial.
race-course, n. race-track, ring, circus, career, hippodrome, curriculum, stadium.
racer, n. courser.
rack, n. pain, torture, agony; amble, pacing; crib, manger; distaff; arrack.
rack, v. stretch, strain, torture, agonize; harass, persecute, torment.
rack and ruin. (Colloq.) destruction, ruin.
racket, n. din, uproar, clamor, babel, clangor, blare, noise, hullabaloo, hilarity, vociferation; (Slang) carouse, revel, dissipation.
racy, a. fine-flavored, pungent, rich; spirited, piquant, fresh and lively. Antonyms: insipid, vapid, tasteless, flavorless, dull, prosaic.
radiance, n. effulgence, refulgence, brilliancy, brightness.
radiant, a. effulgent, refulgent, brilliant. See bright.
radiate, v. shine, beam, gleam; diverge.
radiated, a. divergent.
radiation, n. irradiance, irradiation; divergence. Antonym: convergence.
radical, a. original, fundamental; extreme, thorough-going; primitive. Antonyms: conservative, moderate, slight, trifling, derivative.
radical, n. root, etymon, radix.
radically, adv. fundamentally.
raffle, n. lottery.
raft, n. float, catamaran; (Slang) lot, multitude, collection, heap.
rag, n. tatter, flitter, shred, patch, frazzle, fragment.
ragamuffin, n. tatterdemalion, scarecrow.
rag-baby, n. mopsey, moppet.
rage, n. fury, wrath, passion; (Colloq.) vogue, mode, fashion. See anger.
ragged, a. rent, torn, frazzled; rough, jagged; ragamuffin, tatterdemalion.
raging, a. furious, raving, infuriated, wroth, frenzied, flagrant, rampant.
rag-picker, n. chiffonier.
raid, n. foray, incursion.
rail, v. upbraid, reproach, censure, scoff.
railing, n. invective, vituperation, reproach, upbraiding, contumely. See abuse.
raillery, n. banter, pleasantry, jesting, asteism.
railroad, n. railway.
railroad, v. (Colloq.) hurry, rush.
raiment, n. See clothes.
rain, n. (fine rain) drizzle, mizzle, mist, misle; shower. Antonym: drought.
rainbow, n. iris.
rain gauge. ombrometer, udometer, pluviometer, pluviograph, ombrograph, hyetometer.
rainy, a. showery, wet, pluvious, pluvial.
raise, v. uplift, lift; hoist, heave; erect, build, rear; elevate, advance, exalt; enhance, augment; excite, arouse; propagate, grow, cultivate; rear; levy, collect.
raising, n. uplifting, lifting, elevation, hoisting; erection, rearing; exaltation, elevation; propagation, growing, cultivation.
rake, n. libertine, lecher, debauchee, roué, wencher, rakehell, satyr.
rakish, a. licentious, dissolute, libertine, immoral, lecherous, lewd.
rally, v. collect, reunite; recover, recuperate; assemble; banter, satirize, joke.
ram, n. buck; (Astron.) Aries.
ram, v. cram, stuff, compress.
ramble, v. rove, range, stroll, stray, straggle, roam, wander.
ramble, n. stroll, wandering, rambling.
rambler, n. rover, wanderer, roamer, stroller.
rambling, a. roving, wandering; discursive, digressive, incoherent.
ramp, v. spring, leap, bound, romp.
rampage, n. (Slang) debauchery, passion, excess, unrestraint.
rampageous, a. (Low) rampant, unrestrained, unruly, violent.
rampancy, n. exuberance, luxuriance.
rampant, a. exuberant, luxuriant, rank, wanton, excessive; uncontrollable, violent, raging, furious, unbridled.
rampart, n. fortification, bulwark, security, vallum.
ramshackle, a. dilapidated, disjointed.
rancid, a. musty, tainted, rank, frowzy.
rancor, n. malignity, vindictiveness, hatred, virulence, malevolence, bitterness.
rancorous, a. malevolent, vindictive, malignant, hateful, virulent, bitter.
random, a. haphazard, chance, stray, aimless, hazarded.
range, v. arrange, rank, class, classify; rove, roam, ramble; correspond.
range, n. extent, reach, sweep, compass, scope, latitude; order, class, kind, series, rank; compass, register.
rank, a. exuberant, luxuriant, rampant, vigorous; violent, extreme, excessive, immoderate, gross; rancid, musty, frowzy, fetid, stale; offensive, impalatable, fulsome, foul, gross.
rank, n. row, line, range, order, tier, series; grade, class, order, division; position, station, degree; eminence, distinction.
rank, v. classify, arrange, dispose, class, group, be ranked.
rankling, n. festering, inflammation; heart-burning, resentment.
ransack, v. rummage.
ransom, n. release, liberation, redemption, deliverance.
ransom, v. redeem, rescue, liberate, deliver.
rant, v. declaim, spout, rave, vociferate.
rant, n. rodomontade, ranting, vociferation, bombast.
ranting, a. bombastic.
rap, v. knock.--n. knock, thump, thwack.
rapacious, a. predatory, predaceous, ravenous; avaricious, grasping, extortionate, voracious.
rapacity, n. voracity, rapaciousness, greediness, avarice.
rape, n. constupration, defloration, ravishment, violation.
rape, v. ravish, constuprate, violate, deflower.
rapid, a. swift, fast, fleet, expeditious, cursory, quick, speedy, hasty, furious.
rapidity, n. swiftness, celerity, velocity, haste, speed, fleetness.
rapidly, adv. swiftly, fast, post haste.
rapine, n. plundering, sack, pillage, spoliation, depredation.
rapscallion, n. (Colloq.) rascal, rogue, scoundrel, knave, miscreant.
rapt, a. enraptured, fascinated, transported, spellbound; absorbed, engrossed.
rapture, n. ecstasy, transport, delight, bliss, beatitude.
rapturous, a. ecstatic, beatific, delightful, ravishing, transporting.
rare, a. uncommon, unusual, strange, infrequent, singular, curious; exquisite, fine, incomparable, recherché; sparse, dispersed; subtile, fine, thin, rarefied, tenuous; underdone.
rare bird. rara avis.
rarebit, n. delicacy, tidbit, dainty.
rarely, adv. infrequently, seldom.
rascal, n. rogue, scoundrel, caitiff, scamp, knave, villain, miscreant, varlet, trickster, renegade, scapegrace, rapscallion.
rascality, n. chicanery, improbity. See badness.
rash, a. incautious, precipitate, overhasty, indiscreet, inconsiderate, impulsive, temerarious, madcap, headlong, foolhardy, unwary, reckless.
rash, n. exanthema, eruption, efflorescence.
rashness, n. temerity, precipitancy, indiscretion, incaution, recklessness.
rasping, a. grating.--n. pl. scobs.
rate, v. estimate, value, appraise; assess; scold, censure, chide, berate, reprove.
ratification, n. confirmation, sanction, substantiation, corroboration.
ratify, v. confirm, sanction, substantiate, corroborate.
ration, n. allowance, portion, allotment.
rational, a. reasoning; intelligent, sane, sound, judicious, wise, reasonable, equitable. Antonyms: irrational, insane, injudicious, unwise, unreasonable.
rationale, n. explanation, exposition, reason.
rattle, v. clatter; chatter, prate, babble, prattle; disconcert, confuse, discompose.
rattle, n. clatter; chatter, babble, prattle; crepitaculum; rale.
rattle-headed, a. giddy, rattle-brained, thoughtless.
ravage, v. plunder, pillage, devastate, sack, desolate, despoil.
ravage, n. plunder, pillage, devastation, spoliation, sack, despoliation, rapine.
ravel, v. unravel.
ravening, a. rapacious, insatiable, predatory, ferocious.
ravenous, a. voracious, rapacious, ravening, insatiable.
ravine, n. gorge, defile, clough, lin, gully, gulch.
raving, a. irrational, delirious, maniacal, wild, phrenetic.
ravish, v. transport, enrapture, enchant; rape.
ravishing, a. rapturous, ecstatic, transporting, beatific, delightful.
ravishment, n. ecstasy, transport, rapture; rape.
raw, a. uncooked; unprepared, crude; immature, unripe; galled, sore, sensitive; inexperienced, unskilled, green.
raw meat. Associated word: omophagic.
raw sugar. cassonade.
raze, v. erase, efface, rase; overthrow, subvert, demolish.
reach, v. attain.
reachable, a. attainable, accessible.
reach the highest point. culminate.
react, v. repeat; resist, oppose; rebound, recoil.
read, v. peruse.
readable, a. legible. Antonyms: unreadable, illegible.
reader, n. peruser.
readiness, n. promptness, facility, alacrity. Antonyms: unreadiness, reluctance.
reading, n. perusal; recitation, prelection.
reading desk. lecturn.
real, a. genuine, veritable, actual, true. Antonyms: fictitious, unreal, spurious, ostensible, artificial, feigned, sham.
reality, n. actuality, verity. Antonyms: unreality, phantasm, simulation, phantom.
realization, n. fulfillment, effectuation.
realize, v. effectuate.
really, adv. actually, truly, indeed, veritably, verily.
realm, n. kingdom, dominion; domain, region, sphere, department.
realty, n. real estate.
ream, n. twenty quires, 480 sheets.
rear, a. hindmost.
rear, v. raise, lift, elevate; erect, build; bring up.
rearing, n. elevation, raising; erection.
reason, n. motive, consideration, design, purpose, rationality, logic, account. Associated words: dialectics, logic, syllogism, premises, conclusion.
reason, v. ratiocinate, syllogize; argue, remonstrate, expostulate.
reasonable, a. rational; logical, just; conscionable, fair, moderate, equitable.
reasoner, n. logician.
reasoning, n. ratiocination, argumentation, syllogism, discursus; (sophistical or false) sophistry, fallacy, casuistry.
reata, n. lariat, lasso, riata.
rebate, n. deduction, discount, allowance.
rebel, n. insurgent, revolter, turncoat.
rebellion, n. insurrection, insurgency, mutiny, sedition, revolt, insubordination.
rebellious, a. insurgent, seditious, mutinous, insubordinate, refractory. Antonyms: dutiful, submissive, docile, compliant, deferential, obedient.
rebound, v. recoil, ricochet; reverberate, reëcho.
rebound, n. rebounding, resilience, repercussion, recoil, ricochet.
rebuff, n. repulse, resistance, opposition, repellence, check, setback.