Definitions for rampant

rampant ramp·ant

Spelling: [ram-puh nt]
IPA: /ˈræm pənt/

Rampant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in rampant (aamnprt).

Definitions for rampant

adjective

  1. violent in action or spirit; raging; furious:
  2. growing luxuriantly, as weeds.
  3. in full sway; prevailing or unchecked:
  4. (of an animal) standing on the hind legs; ramping.
  5. Heraldry. (of a beast used as a charge) represented in profile facing the dexter side, with the body upraised and resting on the left hind leg, the tail and other legs elevated, the right foreleg highest, and the head in profile unless otherwise specified:
  6. Architecture. (of an arch or vault) springing at one side from one level of support and resting at the other on a higher level.

Origin of rampant

1350-1400; Middle English Old French, present participle of ramper to ramp1

Examples for rampant

When the brick-house era sets in, the middleman will be rampant.

And yet the seeds of it must be in your heart, or it could not all at once shew itself so rampant.

How this will all shake out is a topic of rampant speculation.

Credit is woefully inflated; speculation and waste are rampant.

When Booker assumed office, his half-a-million constituents were grappling with high unemployment and rampant poverty.

As if to illustrate the rampant sexism that still exists, hackers threatened to release nude photos of her after her speech.

Heterodoxy in details of faith is rampant, and is no obstacle to Christian fellowship.

Newly facing the evil of the world, she was a rampant reformer at once.

Decomposing corpses led to a rampant plague so severe it spread to Syria.

This has produced an unearthing of the unequal and unfair policing of African Americans rampant across this nation.

Word Value for rampant
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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