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riotous |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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