Synonyms
Adjective
- blistering
- breakneck
- breathless
- brisk
- dizzy
- fast
- fleet
- fleet-footed
- flying
- galloping
- hasty
- hot
- lightning
- nippy
- quick
- rapid
- rapid-fire
- snappy
- speedy
- splitting
- swift
- whirlwind
- zippy
Adverb
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- extremely
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- fiercely
- filthy
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- heavily
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- mortally
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- vastly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
Examples of rattling in a Sentence
Adjective
we drove off at a rattling pace
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Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
Adjective
Here a number of the emigrants who arrived late were stowed away on a rattling floor of cane, covered with hides.
—Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
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“Rattling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rattling. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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rattling
2 of 2 adverb
: very entry 2 sense 1
a rattling good tale
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