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ratingverb1present participle of rate to be or make worthy of (as a reward or punishment)how does a summer intern rate a new computer when I've been told to make do with this clunker? deserving, earning, meriting entitling, qualifying to make an approximate or tentative judgment regardingnowadays most motorists would probably rate their cell phone as an "essential" piece of electronic equipment appraising, assessing, estimating, evaluating, guesstimating, setting, valuating, valuing adjudging, deeming, judgingascertaining, determining, discovering, learningpricing, prizingdeciding, settlinganalyzing, assaying, surveying, testingreappraising, reassessing, reevaluating(or re-evaluating), rejudging, revaluingtransvaluating, transvaluingmisesteeming, misjudging, misprizing, underestimating, undervaluing to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classesa restaurant that consistently rates high in all the standard categories being, grading, placing, ranking, standing seedingcountingcategorizing, classifying, classing, codifying, compartmentalizing, grouping, separating, setting, sortinginstalling, instating to think of in a particular wayI would rate her my best friend; after all, she's always been there when I needed her accounting, calling, considering, counting, esteeming, holding, looking (on or upon), reckoning, regarding, setting down, viewing believing, deeming, feeling, sensing, thinkingconceiving, fancying, imagining taking for ratingverb2present participle of rateto criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failingsa tyrannical father who usually spent most of dinnertime rating his children on their alleged multitude of failings basting, bawling out, berating, calling down, castigating, chastising, chewing out, dressing down, flaying, hammering, jawing, keelhauling, lambasting, lecturing, ragging, railing (at or against), ranting (at), reaming (out), rebuking, reprimanding, reproaching, scolding, scoring, tongue-lashing, upbraiding admonishing, chiding, remonstrating (with), reprovingabusing, assailing, attacking, bad-mouthing, blaming, blasting, censuring, condemning, criticizing, crucifying, denouncing, dissing(slang), excoriating, faulting, haranguing, knocking, lacing (into), lashing, panning, reprehending, reviling, scourging, slamming, vituperatingbelittling, disparaging, mocking, putting downridiculing, scoffing, scorning laying into, reading the riot act (to), taking to task approving, endorsing(also indorsing), sanctioningextolling, lauding, praising in 1702 |