RIOTOUS


Meaning of RIOTOUS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ raɪətəs ]

1.

If you say that someone has a riotous lifestyle, you mean that they frequently behave in a excessive and uncontrolled way, for example by eating or drinking too much. ( FORMAL )

...aristocrats who wasted their inheritances in riotous living.

= wild

ADJ : usu ADJ n

2.

You can describe someone’s behaviour or an event as riotous when it is noisy and lively in a rather wild way.

The dinner was often a riotous affair enlivened by superbly witty speeches.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

• ri‧ot‧ous‧ly

...a slapstick affair which I found riotously amusing.

ADV : ADV adj / -ed

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