'Riotous' definitions:
Definition of 'riotous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" [syn: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous]
adjective
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]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Riotous'
From: GCIDE
- Riotous \Ri"ot*ous\, a. [OF. rioteux.]
- 1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. [1913 Webster]
- The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv. 13. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'riotous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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