riotous
ri|ot|ous /r'aɪətəs/
1 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
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
2 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
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.
● riotously [ADV] ADV adj/-ed
...a slapstick affair which I found riotously amusing.
1 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
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
2 [ADJ] usu ADJ n
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.
● riotously [ADV] ADV adj/-ed
...a slapstick affair which I found riotously amusing.