rating

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rat=ing

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rating, n.
1 the act or an instance of placing in a rank or class or assigning a value to.
2 the estimated standing of a person as regards credit etc.
3 Naut. a Brit. a non-commissioned sailor. b a person's position or class on a ship's books.
4 Brit. an amount fixed as a local rate.
5 the relative popularity of a broadcast programme as determined by the estimated size of the audience.
6 Naut. any of the classes into which racing yachts are distributed by tonnage.

rating, n. an angry reprimand.

THESAURUS

rating

abuse, admonishment, admonition, analysis, analyzing, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation, apprizal, approximation, arrangement, assailing, assault, assessing, assessment, assize, assizement, attack, bank credit, berating, bitter words, blackening, blood, book credit, borrowing power, bracket, branch, calculation, cash credit, caste, castigation, cataloging, categorization, category, chastisement, chiding, clan, class, classification, codification, commercial credit, computation, condition, consumer credit, contumely, correction, credit, credit insurance, credit rating, credit union, determination, diatribe, division, dual pricing, echelon, estate, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluation, evaluative criticism, execration, filing, footing, gauging, grade, grading, group, grouping, hard words, head, heading, hierarchy, hire purchase plan, indexing, installment credit, installment plan, instrumentation, invective, investment credit, jawing, jeremiad, kin, label, lecture, lesson, level, line of credit, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, metric system, never-never, objurgation, onslaught, opinion, order, philippic, pigeonhole, pigeonholing, place, placement, position, power structure, precedence, predicament, price determination, pricing, quantification, quantization, race, ranging, rank, ranking, rate, rebuke, reckoning, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, revilement, rubric, scolding, screed, section, sept, sermon, set, sorting, spanking, sphere, stage, standing, station, status, strain, stratification, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, survey, surveying, tabulation, tax credit, taxonomy, telemetering, telemetry, tick, tirade, title, tongue-lashing, triangulation, trust, typology, unit pricing, upbraiding, valuation, valuing, view, vilification, vituperation, weighing

ROGET THESAURUS

rating

Disapprobation

N disapprobation, disapproval, improbation, disesteem, disvaluation, displacency, odium, dislike, dispraise, discommendation, blame, censure, obloquy, detraction, disparagement, depreciation, denunciation, condemnation, ostracism, black list, animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism, sardonic grin, sardonic laugh, sarcasm, insinuation, innuendo, bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment, satire, sneer, taunt, cavil, carping, censoriousness, hypercriticism, reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach, rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming, correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff, slap, slap on the face, home thrust, hit, frown, scowl, black look, diatribe, jeremiad, jeremiade, tirade, philippic, clamor, outcry, hue and cry, hiss, hissing, sibilance, sibilation, catcall, execration, chiding, upbraiding, exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely, hard words, cutting words, bitter words, evil-speaking, bad language, personality, disapproving, scandalized, disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative, defamatory, satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon, censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical, fastidious, sparing of praise, grudging praise, disapproved, chid, in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved, unblest, at a discount, exploded, weighed in the balance and found wanting, blameworthy, reprehensible, to blame, worthy of blame, answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of, bad, vicious, unlamented, unbewailed, unpitied, with a wry face, reproachfully, Int, it is too bad!, it won't do, it will never do!, marry come up!, Oh!, come!, 'sdeath!, forbid it Heaven!, God forbid, Heaven forbid!, out upon, fie upon it!, away with!, tut!, O tempora!, O mores!, shame!, fie, fie for shame!, out on you!, tell it not in Gath!.