riotous | ||
1. | [ adjective ] produced or growing in extreme abundance | |
Synonyms: | lush profuse luxuriant exuberant | |
Examples: | "their riotous blooming" |
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Related terms: | abundant | |
2. | [ adjective ] characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | |
Synonyms: | disruptive turbulent tumultuous troubled | |
Examples: | "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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Related terms: | unquiet | |
3. | [ adjective ] unrestrained by convention or morality | |
Synonyms: | degenerate degraded dissipated dissolute libertine profligate fast debauched | |
Examples: | "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society" "deplorably dissipated and degraded" "riotous living" "fast women" |
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Related terms: | immoral | |
Similar spelling: |
Ritts ritz Ritacco ritzy Ritch |