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Riotous

Riotous Meaning & Definition
Riotous Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Riotous?

[adj] produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming"
[adj] unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
[adj] 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Riotous: abundant | debauched | degenerate | degraded | disruptive | dissipated | dissolute | exuberant | fast | immoral | libertine | lush | luxuriant | profligate | profuse | troubled | tumultuous | turbulent | unquiet

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Riotous In Webster's Dictionary

\Ri"ot*ous\, a. [OF. rioteux.] 1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv. 13. 2. Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious. -- {Ri"ot*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ri"ot*ous*ness}, n.

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