tirade

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ti=rade

CIDE DICTIONARY

tirade, n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See Tear to rend, and cf. Tire to tear.].

 A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.  [1913 Webster]
"Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tirade, n. a long vehement denunciation or declamation.

Etymology

F, = long speech, f. It. tirata volley f. tirare pull f. Rmc

THESAURUS

tirade

abundance, abuse, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, amplitude, assailing, assault, attack, bawl, berating, bitter words, blackening, censure, chalk talk, cloud of words, condemnation, contumely, copiousness, cry, debate, declamation, denunciation, diatribe, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dolorous tirade, effusion, effusiveness, eulogy, execration, exhortation, extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, filibuster, fluency, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, formlessness, funeral oration, groan, gush, gushing, harangue, hard words, hortatory address, howl, inaugural, inaugural address, invective, jawing, jeremiad, keen, lament, lecture, logorrhea, macrology, moan, murmur, mutter, onslaught, oration, outburst, outcry, outpour, overflow, palilogy, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, plaint, planctus, pleonasm, prepared speech, prepared text, prodigality, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, public speech, rampancy, rankness, rant, rating, reading, recital, recitation, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, revilement, rodomontade, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, scream, screed, sermon, set speech, sob, speech, speechification, speeching, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, talk, talkathon, talkativeness, tautology, teemingness, tongue-lashing, ululation, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, vilification, vituperation, wail, wail of woe, whimper, whine, yawp, yowl

ROGET THESAURUS

tirade

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.

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!.