Meaning of RIOTOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'rIutus
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | abundant, debauched, degenerate, degraded, disruptive, dissipated, dissolute, exuberant, fast, immoral, libertine, lush, luxuriant, profligate, profuse, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent, unquiet |
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| | Definition: | | \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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