What does chiding mean?
Chiding means present participle and gerund of chide.
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/ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of chide.
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; […]
it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife.
And the said Mr. Hale did not say this in a chiding, quarrelsome, or brawling manner.
How expressive this little parenthesis: "Sakuntalâ makes a chiding gesture with her finger"!
Use chiding when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chiding means present participle and gerund of chide.
Common synonyms include berating, browbeating, rixation, chiding.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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; […]
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