Ranter

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ranter \Rant"er\ (r[a^]nt"[~e]r), n.
     1. A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Eccl. Hist.)
        (a) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; --


            called also {Seekers}. See {Seeker}.
        (b) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the
            Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency
            in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
            [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ranter
       n : someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud
           manner [syn: {raver}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "ranter":
     Herod, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee,
     Tartuffe, affecter, blatherskite, bluff, bluffer, blusterer,
     braggart, bravo, bucko, bully, bullyboy, canter, canting hypocrite,
     debater, declaimer, demagogue, dissembler, dissimulator, fanfaron,
     formalist, haranguer, hector, hectorer, hypocrite, jawsmith,
     lip server, lip worshiper, panelist, pharisee, pietist,
     pious fraud, poser, public speaker, rabble-rouser, raver,
     religionist, religious hypocrite, roisterer, sniveler, snuffler,
     speaker, speecher, speechifier, speechmaker, spieler,
     spiritual humbug, spokesman, spokeswoman, spouter, swaggerer,
     swashbuckler, swasher, talker, tub-thumper, vaporer,
     whited sepulcher