RIOTOUS


Meaning of RIOTOUS in English

1.

If you say that someone has a ~ 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 ~ living.

= wild

ADJ: usu ADJ n

2.

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

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

ADJ: usu ADJ n

~ly

...a slapstick affair which I found ~ly amusing.

ADV: ADV adj/-ed

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