riotous
/'raiətəs/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Characterized by or involving wild, unrestrained, and often disorderly behavior or celebration: Describes situations, events, or behavior that are noisy, boisterous, and uncontrolled, often in a joyful or celebratory way.
- Luxuriantly or abundantly overgrown or productive: Used to describe plant growth that is extremely vigorous, lush, and seemingly uncontrolled.
- Involving unrest, disorder, or insubordination: Pertaining to times, periods, or situations marked by turbulence, tumult, or a breakdown of order.
Examples of Usage
- Describing wild behavior:
- The party next door was absolutely riotous, with music and laughter continuing until dawn.
- The festival turned into a riotous celebration in the streets.
- Describing abundant growth:
- The garden was a riotous tangle of colorful flowers.
- Riotous blooms covered the entire hillside.
- Describing turbulent times:
- The country entered a riotous period following the revolution.
- His administration is remembered for its riotous political climate.
Advanced Usage
- "riotous living": A phrase describing a lifestyle of excessive indulgence, debauchery, and lack of moral restraint.
- The biography detailed his early years of riotous living before he settled down.
- "riotous assembly" (Legal/Historical term): A gathering of people in a manner that disturbs the public peace in a turbulent and tumultuous way.
- The protesters were charged with riotous assembly.
Variants and Related Words
- Riot (n/v): A violent disturbance by a crowd; to take part in such a disturbance.
- The police were called to control the riot.
- Riotously (adv): In a riotous manner.
- The crowd laughed riotously at the comedian's jokes.
Synonyms
- Boisterous: Noisy, energetic, and cheerful.
- Unruly: Disorderly and disruptive, difficult to control.
- Tumultuous: Making a loud, confused noise; excited, confused, or disorderly.
- Luxuriant: (For the growth sense) Rich and profuse in growth; lush.
- Debauched: Indulging in sensual pleasures to a degree perceived as morally degrading.
Antonyms
- Orderly: Neatly and methodically arranged; peaceful.
- Restrained: Characterized by reserve or moderation.
- Sparse: (For the growth sense) Thinly dispersed or scattered; not lush.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- "Run riot": To behave in a wild and uncontrolled manner; to grow or spread uncontrollably.
- The children were allowed to run riot in the playground.
- Weeds have run riot in the abandoned lot.
Adjective
- unrestrained by convention or morality
- Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
- deplorably dissipated and degraded
- riotous living
- fast women
- 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
- produced or growing in extreme abundance
- their riotous blooming