Meaning

2 senses
  1. Lively, quick (speech, pace).

  2. (dated, emphatic, intensifier)Good, fine.

    a rattling good lunch

More definitions
  • extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
  • quick and energetic

Forms

more rattling, most rattling
Comparativemore rattling Lesson
Superlativemost rattling Lesson

regular

Synonyms

17 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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