rattling
Meaning of rattling
- making a series of knocking sounds.
a rattling old lift
- very good of its kind (used for emphasis).
a rattling good story
- make or cause to make a rapid succession of short, sharp knocking sounds.
the roof rattled with little gusts of wind
he rattled some change in his pocket
- make (someone) nervous, worried, or irritated.
she turned quickly, rattled by his presence
Middle English: related to Middle Dutch and Low German ratelen, of imitative origin.
Information about rattling
- The plural form of rattling is: rattlings.
- Languages in which rattling is used:
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Hyphenation of rattling
rat-tling
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- rattling is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
rattling synonyms
Meaning fantastic:
fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous
Meaning brisk:
brisk, lively, merry, snappy, spanking, zippy
Meaning rattle:
Meaning very:
Meaning make or cause to make a continuous rattling sound:
Meaning strike or put down (something) forcefully and noisily:
Meaning make or cause to make a clang:
Meaning make or cause to make a clank:
Meaning make or cause to make a clink:
Meaning move with or make a clunk:
Meaning make or cause to make a light metallic ringing sound:
Meaning make or cause to make a ringing metallic sound, typically a discordant one:
Meaning make or cause to make a light, clear ringing sound:
Meaning make (someone) lose courage or confidence:
Meaning disturb the composure of; unsettle:
Meaning interfere with the normal arrangement or functioning of:
Meaning make (someone) agitated or confused:
Meaning upset the composure or confidence of; shock or astonish:
Meaning make (someone) anxious or unsettled:
Meaning disturb or agitate (someone):
Meaning make (someone) feel uneasy or embarrassed:
Meaning disturb the composure of:
Meaning disconcert or upset the composure of (someone):
Meaning make (someone) troubled or nervous:
Meaning make (someone) unhappy, disappointed, or worried:
Meaning make (someone) afraid or anxious:
Meaning cause great fear or nervousness in; frighten:
Meaning disturb or disconcert (someone):
Meaning disconcert; confuse:
Words that rhyme with rattling
Ling, Coaling, Ealing, annealing, antiwhaling, appealing, autodialing, avaling, backpedaling, baling, bealing, berascaling, canaling, capitaling, charcoaling, coaling, concealing, congealing, countersealing, craaling, credentialing, crystaling, dealing, descaling, dialing, downscaling, embaling, empaling, ensealing, equaling, exhaling, fealing, foaling, forepaling, gealing, gimbaling, goaling, haling, healing, impaling, inhaling, initialing, instealing, interdealing, intervaling, journaling, keelhaling, kraaling, lateraling, localing