rampageousadj.
/ramˈpeɪdʒəs/, U.S. /ræmˈpeɪdʒəs/, Scottish English /ramˈpedʒəs/ Originally Scottish.
1. Violently or boisterously uncontrollable; unruly, running wild; given to or characterized by rampaging.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > riotous
tempestousc1374
tempestuous1447
uproarish1550
tumultuous1576
routious1602
tumultuary1650
ramp1678
mobbish1695
royet1737
riotous1775
rumbustiousa1777
rumbustical1779
rampageous1800
rioty1819
rampacious1836
tempestive1848
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] > recklessly or riotously violent
sturdy1297
ramping1484
turbulous1527
flinginga1529
turbulent1538
rampant?1609
rampageous1800
rampacious1836
1800 R. Bisset Douglas IV. vii. 186 As to your poor limber squire, I should not have thoft him so rampagious: however, if I am well paid, I have nothing to say.
1822 J. Galt Provost xv. 115 The primitive ages of a rampageous antiquity.
1840 F. Trollope Widow Married III. xxiii. 22 She must be careful not to be too frolicsome and rampagous.
1911 J. M. Barrie Peter & Wendy vii. 113 It was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do.
1956 R. Pascal German Novel v. 141 He seems a pig-headed, self-willed, rampageous backwoodsman.
2006 Times (Nexis) 29 June (Sport) 2 Rooney at his very best, his most destructive, his most rampageous.
2. In extended use, of a visual feature or effect: glaring, loud. rare.
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society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective] > strikingly
notablea1398
staring?a1425
loud1535
gross1581
strong1583
signal1591
conspicuous1604
marked1620
remarked1623
ranka1640
signalized1652
bold1678
flaming1706
glaring1706
telegraphic1809
salient1841
howling1865
insistent1868
rampageous1889
1889 Harper's Mag. July 200 The ornamentation is for the most part in rampageous rocaille style.
1960 J. Emmons tr. N. Ponente Mod. Painting ix. 153 A similar change came over his color: imaginative before..it now grew rampageous and violent.
1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Feb. c29/1 In Ms. King's paintings, the scene is transformed. Color is wild and rampageous.
Derivatives
ramˈpageously adv.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adverb] > with reckless or riotous violence
rampantlya1475
to run amok1689
rampageously1840
1840 Lady C. M. C. Bury Hist. Flirt xxiii He swears so rampageously, it upsets me.
1939 Winnipeg Free Press 22 Sept. 17/8 Some of our big rivers fluctuated rampageously.
1999 Irish Times (Nexis) 2 Oct. 76 Epimedium acuminatum is rampageously collected as a cure for male impotence.
ramˈpageousness n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > reckless or riotous
outragec1300
outraya1425
reeling1487
stroke and strifec1510
rampage1860
rampageousness1883
wilding1989
1883 St. James's Gaz. 19 May 5 They..have good cause for rampageousness.
1897 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Argus 12 Aug. 4/2 His Warwick fences..are somewhat out of order, owing to the rampageousness of Mr. Wilder.
1961 Times 26 Apr. 15/4 A zoological garden may be full of noise, uproar, and general rampageousness.
2000 Independent (Nexis) 1 Apr. 13 Choose..perennials without a reputation for rampageousness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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