Riotous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Ri"ot*ous*ly}, adv. --
        {Ri"ot*ous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  173 Moby Thesaurus words for "riotous":
     abandoned, abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample,
     aplenty, boisterous, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, brawling,
     breakaway, chaotic, copious, debauched, dense, diffuse, disordered,
     disorderly, dissipated, dissolute, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless,
     extravagant, extreme, extremistic, exuberant, factious, fat,
     fertile, flourishing, flush, free-living, full, galore, generous,
     go-go, gross, heavy, high-living, immoderate, impenetrable,
     in plenty, in quantity, incontinent, indulgent, inexhaustible,
     insurgent, insurrectionary, intemperate, irrepressible, jungled,
     jungly, lavish, lawless, lax, liberal, licentious, loose, lush,
     luxuriant, many, maximal, much, mutineering, mutinous, noisy,
     nonrestrictive, numerous, obstreperous, opulent, out of control,
     out of hand, overabundant, overbounteous, overcopious,
     overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overgrown, overlavish,
     overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous,
     overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous,
     overprolific, overrun, permissive, plenitudinous, plenteous,
     plentiful, plenty, plethoric, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal,
     productive, profuse, profusive, pullulating, rambunctious, rampant,
     rank, rebel, rebellious, reinless, replete, revolutional,
     revolutionary, rich, rife, robustious, roisterous, rollicking,
     rowdy, rumbustious, running over, seditionary, seditious,
     subversive, superabundant, swarming, teeming, terrorist, thick,
     traitorous, treasonable, tumultuous, turbulent, unbridled,
     unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrollable,
     uncontrolled, uncurbed, unforced, ungoverned, uninhibited,
     unmanageable, unmastered, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unreined,
     unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly,
     unsubdued, unsuppressed, unweeded, uproarious, violent, wanton,
     wealthy, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, well-found,
     well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wild