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rattling

 
Adjective rattling has 2 senses
  1. fantastic, howling, marvelous, marvellous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous - extraordinarily good; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"
    Antonym: ordinary (indirect, via extraordinary)
  2. brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy - quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze"
    Antonyms: lethargic, unergetic (indirect, via energetic)
Adverbial rattling has 1 sense
  1. very, really, real, rattling - used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn"
Noun rattling has 1 sense
  1. rattle, rattling, rale - a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle"
    --1 is a kind of noise
    --1 has particulars: crepitation rale
    Derived forms: verb rattle1, verb rattle2
Verb rattle has 2 senses
  1. rattle - make short successive sounds
    --1 is one way to
    sound, go
    Derived forms: noun rattle1, noun rattling1
    Sample sentences:
    Cars rattle in the streets
    The streets rattle with cars
  2. rattle - shake and cause to make a rattling noise
    --2 is one way to
    shake, agitate
    Derived forms: noun rattle2, noun rattler1, noun rattling1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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