rampant
Meaning of rampant
adjective
- (especially of something unwelcome) flourishing or spreading unchecked.
political violence was rampant
rampant inflation
- (of an animal) represented standing on one hind foot with its forefeet in the air (typically in profile, facing the dexter side, with right hind foot and tail raised).
two gold lions rampant
Middle English (as a heraldic term): from Old French, literally ‘crawling’, present participle of ramper (see ramp). From the original use describing a wild animal arose the sense ‘fierce’, whence the current notion of ‘unrestrained’.
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- It is an adjective.
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CatalanHyphenation of rampant
ram-pant
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- rampant is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
rampant synonyms
Meaning rearing:
Meaning not controlled:
Meaning not restrained or restricted:
Meaning (especially of something undesirable) not controlled or restrained:
Meaning uncontrolled; unconstrained:
Meaning found or distributed over a large area or number of people:
Meaning (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world:
Meaning of the nature of an epidemic:
Meaning (especially of an unwelcome influence or physical effect) spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people:
Meaning (especially of something undesirable) of common occurrence; widespread:
Meaning (of a piano) having vertical strings:
Meaning rigidly upright or straight:
Meaning at right angles to a horizontal plane; in a direction, or having an alignment, such that the top is directly above the bottom:
Meaning at an angle of 90° to a given line, plane, or surface or to the ground:
Meaning set or turned on its end or upside down:
rampant antonyms
Meaning not showing emotion; having one's feelings under control:
Anagrams of rampant
Words that rhyme with rampant
pant, discrepant, Sacripant, anticipant, mancipant, nonparticipant, obstipant, participant, tulipant, unparticipant, counterrampant, slampant, dopant, episcopant, countertrippant, flippant, frappant, proppant, trippant, unflippant, nonoccupant, occupant, preoccupant
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