chiding
/ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/
chiding is the present participle and gerund of chide.
Meaning of chide
Verb
chide (third-person singular simple present chides, present participle chiding, simple past chid or chided or chode, past participle chid or chided or chode or chidden)
- To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
- Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward.
Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.c. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, scene 1
- Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward.
- To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
- And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 31:36
- To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
- Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea
That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,
Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1
- Where is he living, clipp’d in with the sea
Noun
chiding (plural chidings)
- A scolding.
- The cause I never knew; one would have thought the knowledge of the guilt and misery which followed his former career, and above all the chidings of a wife whom he loved would have deterred him; […]1832, The Rural Repository Devoted to Polite Literature, volume 9, page 2
- Synonyms:
- berating, browbeating, rixation, chockling, correption, dirdum, down the banks, dressing down, going over, jawing
Adjective
chiding (comparative more chiding, superlative most chiding)
- Reproachful; critical.
- it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife.1592, Joannes Ludovicus, A very fruteful and pleasant boke called the Instruction of a christen woman, page 254
- And the said Mr. Hale did not say this in a chiding, quarrelsome, or brawling manner.1849, Charles Thomas Longley, The Bishop of Ripon Versus the Vicar of Harewood, page 49
Synonyms of chiding
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Forms of chiding
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chidings |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more chiding |
| superlative | most chiding |
Words formed from chiding
Words that rhyme with chiding
- riding
- confiding
- abiding
- biding
- gliding
- guiding
- hiding
- paragliding
- sliding
- striding
- backsliding
- bestriding
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- betiding
- blindsiding
- briding
- broadsiding
- coinciding
- colliding
- coresiding
- deciding
- deriding
- disciding
- dividing
- eliding
- griding
- hagriding
- joyriding
- misguiding
- niding
- nondividing
- outriding
- overriding
- overstriding
- peroxiding
- presiding
- priding
- providing
- redeciding
- redividing
- residing
- siding
- subsiding
- suiciding
Questions about chiding
- What does chiding mean?
- Chiding means a scolding.
- What is chiding the present participle and gerund of?
- Chiding is the present participle and gerund of chide.
- What part of speech is chiding?
- Chiding can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce chiding?
- Chiding is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of chiding?
- The plural of chiding is chidings.
Words near chiding in the dictionary
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