rampant

Meaning

Adj

1. Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.
2. Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile.
3. Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane.
4. Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner.
5. Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.

Adv

Rampantly.

Synonyms

rank

wild

rearing

extravagant

unrestrained

raging

uninhibited

furious

frantic

fulsome

hyperbolic

immoderate

impetuous

inordinate

irrepressible

orgiastic

overabundant

rampageous

resistless

runaway

savage

spread

steep

unbridled

unchecked

uncontrollable

uncontrolled

undeterred

undue

uninhabited

upright

vaulting

violent

wanton

whopping

profuse in

abnormal

lion rampant guardant

combatant

crooked

exceeding

excess

exorbitant

extend

ferocious

Translations

αχαλίνωτος

desenfreado

effréné

sauvage

rampante

sfrenata

wild

sfrenato

κατωφερής

συσπειρωμένος

άγριος

rampant

منتشر

selvaggio

ασυγκράτητος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹæm.pənt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: rampand

Cognate with Scots: rampand

Inherited from Middle English: *rampant

In summary

From Middle English rampand, rampend, present participle of rampen (“to rise by climbing, shoot up, sprout, sty, ascend”), from Old French ramper (“to creep, climb”) (see below), equivalent to ramp + -and or ramp + -ant. Recorded since 1382, "standing on the hind legs" (as in heraldry), later, "fierce, ravenous" (1387). Compare Scots rampand (“rampant”).
Alternatively from Middle English *rampant, from Old French rampant, the present participle of ramper (“to creep, climb”), equivalent to ramp + -ant. Old French ramper derives from Frankish *rampōn, *hrampōn (“to hook, grapple, climb”), from *rampa, *hrampa (“hook, claw, talon”), from Proto-Germanic *hrempaną (“to curve, shrivel, shrink, wrinkle”).