Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - riotous
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Riotous
riotous
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 • riotously ...a slapstick affair which I found riotously amusing. ADV: ADV adj/-ed RIOTOUSLY see riotous
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1.
adjective Date: 15th century 1. a. of the nature of a riot ; turbulent b. participating in riot 2. abundant, exuberant the garden was ~ with flowers • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
adj. 1 marked by or involving rioting. 2 characterized by wanton conduct. 3 wildly profuse. Derivatives riotously adv. riotousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF (as RIOT) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. мятежный 2. буйный; шумливый; беспорядочный riotous behaviour —- бесчинства 3. распутный, ведущий разгульный образ жизни to lead a riotous life —- вести разгульный образ жизни 4. необузданный, безудержный riotous fancy —- необузданная фантазия riotous laughter —- безудержный хохот 5. пышный, буйный (о растительности) the garden was riotous with flowers —- сад был полон цветов ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
adj. 1) буйный; шумливый; разгульный 2) обильный, пышный, буйный (о растительности) Syn: see turbulent ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~ adj 1 wild, exciting, and uncontrolled (riotous drinking and singing) 2 uncontrolled, noisy, and perhaps dangerous (riotous behaviour BrE) (Steve was arrested for riotous behaviour the night before his wedding.) - riotously adv - riotousness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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