riotous Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite produced or growing in extreme abundance
    luxuriant; lush; profuse; exuberant.
    • their riotous blooming
  2. adjective satellite characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
    tumultuous; troubled; turbulent; disruptive.
    • 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. adjective satellite unrestrained by convention or morality
    debauched; libertine; dissolute; fast; degenerate; degraded; dissipated; profligate.
    • Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
    • deplorably dissipated and degraded
    • riotous living
    • fast women

WordNet

Ri"ot*ous adjective
Etymology
OF. rioteux.
Definitions
  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"ot*ous*ly, adv. -- Ri"ot*ous*ness, n.

Webster 1913