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1. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
   - rattle, rale

1. Extraordinarily good or great; used especially as an intensifier
   "had a rattling conversation about politics";
   - fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous [US], marvellous [Brit, Cdn], terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous, magnificent, heavenly
    
2. Quick and energetic
   "travelling at a rattling rate";
   - alert, brisk, lively, merry, snappy, spanking, zippy

1. Used as an intensifier
   "a rattling good yarn";
   - very, really, real [N. Amer], dirty [Brit], exceedingly, extremely, thoroughly, enormously, tremendously, hugely, staggeringly

1. Make short successive sounds
    
2. Shake and cause to make a rattling noise
    
3. Disturb the composure of
   "Good, it shouldn't rattle him at all";
   - faze, unnerve, enervate, unsettle

Derived forms: rattlings

See also: energetic, extraordinary, rattle off, rattle on

Type of: agitate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, go, noise, shake, sound, untune, upset

Encyclopedia: Rattle, Derbyshire