Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Riotous"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Riotous \Ri"ot*ous\, 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"ot*ous*ly}, adv. --
{Ri"ot*ous*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
riotous
adj 1: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous
blooming" [syn: {exuberant}, {lush}, {luxuriant}, {profuse}]
2: 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" [syn: {disruptive}, {troubled}, {tumultuous}, {turbulent}]
3: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated
and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: {debauched},
{degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated}, {dissolute}, {libertine},
{profligate}, {fast}]
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