Tirade vs Outburst - What's the difference?
tirade | outburst |
A long, angry or violent speech; a diatribe.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
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, title= A section of verse concerning a single theme; a laisse.
As nouns the difference between tirade and outburst
is that tirade is while outburst is a sudden, often violent expression of emotion or activity.As a verb outburst is
to burst out.tirade
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}