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riotous

rio·tous

UK/ˈɹaɪətəs/ US/ˈraɪʌtʌs/ fairly common

adjective

1.

produced or growing in extreme abundance

  • “their riotous blooming”
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”
3.

unrestrained by convention or morality

  • “Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society”
  • “deplorably dissipated and degraded”
  • “riotous living”
  • “fast women”

Origin

Inherited from Middle English riotous, from Anglo-Norman riotous; equivalent to riot + -ous.

Phrases

  • riotous living

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