riotous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: riotous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for riotous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
riotous adj produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" Synonym(s): exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous 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" Synonym(s): disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" Synonym(s): debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Riotous \Ri"otous\, 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"otously}, adv. -- {Ri"otousness}, n.