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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RI'OTOUS, a.
1. Luxurious; wanton or licentious in festive indulgences; as riotous eaters of flesh. Proverbs 23.
2. Consisting of riot; tumultuous; partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly; seditious.
3. Guilty of riot; applied to persons.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" [syn: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous]
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, riotous, 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, riotous, fast]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. a. of the nature of a riot ; turbulent b. participating in riot 2. abundant, exuberant <the garden was riotous with flowers> • riotously adverb • riotousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 marked by or involving rioting. 2 characterized by wanton conduct. 3 wildly profuse. Derivatives: riotously adv. riotousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF (as RIOT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Riotous 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you say that someone has a riotous lifestyle, you mean that they frequently behave in a excessive and uncontrolled way, for example by eating or drinking too much. (FORMAL) ...aristocrats who wasted their inheritances in riotous living. = wild ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. You can describe someone's behaviour or an event as riotous when it is noisy and lively in a rather wild way. The dinner was often a riotous affair enlivened by superbly witty speeches. ADJ: usu ADJ n • riotously ...a slapstick affair which I found riotously amusing. ADV: ADV adj/-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Revelling, luxurious, wanton, unrestrained. 2. Tumultuous, seditious, turbulent, insubordinate, mutinous, rebellious, disorderly, ungovernable, unruly, refractory.

Moby Thesaurus

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