Thesaurus:scolding
English
Noun
Sense: a series of critical remarks
Synonyms
- berating
- browbeating
- chiding
- chockling (UK, dialect)
- correption (obsolete)
- dirdum (Scotland, Northern England)
- down the banks (Ireland, Liverpool, dated, slang)
- dressing down
- going over
- jawing
- lecture
- objurgation (uncommon)
- rixation (obsolete)
- sermon
- scolding
- throughgoing (Scotland)
Holonyms
Meronyms
Various
- bollocking (chielfy non-US, vulgar, slang)
- rollicking (UK)
- tongue lashing
- vituperation
Further reading
- “932. disapprobation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “scolding” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.