Found 2 items, similar to riotous.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: riotous
riotous
adj 1: produced or growing in extreme abundance;
“their riotous
blooming” [syn:
exuberant,
lush,
luxuriant,
profuse]
2: characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination;
“effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive”;
“riotous times”;
“these troubled areas”;
“the tumultuous
years of his administration”;
“a turbulent and unruly
childhood” [syn:
disruptive,
troubled,
tumultuous,
turbulent]
3: unrestrained by convention or morality;
“Congreve draws a
debauched aristocratic society”;
“deplorably dissipated
and degraded”;
“riotous living”;
“fast women” [syn:
debauched,
degenerate,
degraded,
dissipated,
dissolute,
libertine,
profligate,
fast]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Riotous
Riotous
\Ri"ot*ous\, a. [OF. rioteux.]
1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained;
luxurious.
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The younger son . . . took his journey into a far
country, and there wasted his substance with riotous
living. --Luke xv. 13.
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2. Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its
acts; seditious.
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Ri"ot*ous*ly, adv. --
Ri"ot*ous*ness, n.
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