Riotous

Definition: Riotous

Riotous

Adjective

1. Produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming".

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".

3. Unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "riotous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Riotous \Ri"ot*ous\, adjective. [Old French expression rioteux.]. (references)

Synonyms: Riotous

Disobedience

Adjective: disobedient; uncomplying, uncompliant; unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable; breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible; restiff, restive; refractory, contumacious, recusant; (refuse); recalcitrant; resisting; lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous.

Disorder

Troublous; riotous; (violent).

Violence

Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.

Crosswords: Riotous

I say it is a dis--disgrace that people what calls theirselves human beings should waste their substance, as Shakespeare says, in riotous weddings like this here as is being prepared by the Earl of Stokeshire and his blood-sucking parasites (Wedding Rehearsal; writing credit: Lajos Biró; George Grossmith)

Rastus' Riotous Ride (1911)

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Books

• Be a Good Neighbor, and Leave Me Alone: ...and Other Wry and Riotous Writings (reference)

• Line Screw: My Twelve Riotous Years Working Behind Bars in Some of Canada's Toughest Jails: An Unrepentant Memoir (reference)

• Riotous living: a book of cartoons (reference)

• Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theater, 1712-1784 (reference)

• Riotous Riddles (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The red flag in New York - riotous Communist workingmen driven from Tompkins Square by the mounted police, Tuesday, January 13th / Matt Morgen(?). Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Human Rights

Gambia

The bill read: "The President may, for the purpose of promoting reconciliation in an appropriate case, indemnify any person he may determine, for any act, matter or omission to act, or things done or purported to have done during any unlawful assembly, public disturbance, riotous situation or period of public emergency." In May the President signed the bill, despite a general outcry and petitions from human rights organizations. (references)

Political Economy

Gambia

During the year, the National Assembly passed and the President signed a law that allows the President to "for the purpose of promoting reconciliation in an appropriate case, indemnify any person he may determine, for any act, matter or omission to act, or things done or purported to have done during any unlawful assembly, public disturbance, riotous situation or period of public emergency." In previous years, conditions at Mile 2, Janjanbureh, and Jeshwang prisons were believed to be very poor, based on anecdotal evidence; however, during the year, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) visited the Mile 2 and Jeshwang prisons and found that the conditions were good. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "riotous": riotous living ♦ riotous success. Additional references.

Albanian

i tërbuar (berserk, berserker, enraged, frantic, frenzied, furious, mad, rabid, rampageous, rampant, wild). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشترك بشغب, ‏مشاغب (disorderly, pettifogger, rowdy-dowdy, seditious, tumultuous, turbulent), ‏هائج (agitated, bad tempered, berserk, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, mad, nervy, phrenic, rambunctious, rampant, rapturous, restive, restless, rough, rousing, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), ‏وافر (abundant, affluency, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, exuberant, flush, galore, generous, lavish, liberal, myriad, numerous, opulent, overblown, plentiful, plenty, productive, profluent, profuse, rampant, rank, redundant, rich, rife, ripe, voluminous), ‏عربيد (bacchic, becoming drunk, drunk, roisterer, roistering), ‏صاخب (boisterous, discordant, furious, gusty, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, rackety, randy, rattling, raucous, rip roaring, roistering, saturnine, shrill, staring, tempestuous, termagant, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), ‏شغبي (inflammatory). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разюздан (abandoned, irregular, lawless, unbridled), размирен (disorderly, mutinous, rumbustious, troublous, turbulent), необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, mad, obstreperous, orgiastic, phrenetic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, tearaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, vagrant, wanton, wild, zizzi), много смешен (killing, ripe, sidesplitting), бунтовен (insurrectional, mutinous), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), безреден (disjointed, inordinate, orderless, pell mell, raucous, rough and tumble, tumultuary, tumultuous), пищен (baronial, exuberant, flamboyant, florid, gaudy, gingerbread, gorgeous, lavish, lordly, luscious, lush, luxuriant, opulent, palatial, pompous, profuse, rich, spectacular, splendid, theatrical, voluptuous, wanton), избуял (luxuriant, profuse, rampant, rank, redundant, vigorous). (various references)

Chinese 

繽紛 (in riotous profusion). (various references)

Czech

hýřivý (prodigal), buřièský (rebellious, seditious). (various references)

Dutch

teugelloos (lawless, licentious, unchecked, unrestrained), ongebreideld (lawless, licentious, unchecked, unrestrained), bandeloos (lawless, licentious, unchecked, unrestrained). (various references)

Esperanto

senbrida (lawless, licentious). (various references)

Farsi 

اشوبگرانه . (various references)

French

tapageur, soûlard, séditieux, manifestant (rioter), déchaîné, débauché, abondant (rife). (various references)

German

tumultuarisch, aufrührerisch (disorderly, inflammatory, insubordinate, insurgent, malcontent, mutinous, rabble-rousing, rebellious, seditionous, seditionously, seditious, turbulent, wanton). (various references)

Greek 

πολύ έντονος, ταραχώδησ (boisterous, obstreperous, rampageous, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), οχλαγωγικόσ (turbulent). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתפרע, משתולל (frenzied, rampant, raving), פרוע (chaotic, disorderly, rampant, rank, tumultuous, turbulent, unruly, wild), רעש� י (blatant, noisy, rip roaring, rowdy, sensational). (various references)

Hungarian

zavargó (disturber, tumultuary, tumultuous), lázadó (froward, insurgent, insurrectional, insurrectionary, mutineer, mutinous, rebel, rebellious, revolting, rioter, seditious), garázda (rowdy, ruffianly, truculent), dőzsölő (roister-doister, roistering, rollicker). (various references)

Italian

licenzioso (debauched, dissipated, dissolute, frolicsome, indecent, lawless, licentious, loose, obscene, profligate, raffish, ribald, rollicking, unchecked, undisciplined, unrestrained, wanton, wild), dissoluto (debauched, dissolute, goatish, lawless, licentious, profligate, rakish, roue, unchecked, unrestrained). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

暴れる　 (to act violently, to be riotous, to rage, to struggle), 暴れる (to act violently, to be riotous, to rage, to struggle), 活劇 (action picture, riotous scene). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かつ�'き (action picture, riotous scene), あばれる (to act violently, to be riotous, to rage, to struggle). (various references)

Manx

rouanagh (immoral, lewd, profligate, rioter, wanton). (various references)

Pig Latin

iotousray.(various references)

Portuguese

turbulento (bacchic, disorderly, fractious, higgledy-piggledy, inordinate, knockabout, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rampageous, randy, rowdy, rumbustious, stormy, tempestuous, termagant, turbulent, unquiet), tumultuoso (blustering, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), impetuoso (dashing, fiery, forcible, furious, headlong, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, impetuous, lawless, licentious, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, slapdash, tearing, tempestuous, vehement, violent, volcanic), imoderado (immoderate, incontinent, inordinate, intemperate, lawless, licentious, unmeasured, unreasonable, unreserved), desordeiro (plug-ugly, rioter, rough-neck, rowdy, ruffianly, scourer, termagant), desenfreado (lawless, licentious, reinless, unbridled), descomedido (rambunctious, ungovernable, unmeasured), barulhento (altisonant, blustering, bustling, clamant, clamorous, fussy, howling, judas-colored, judas-coloured, knockabout, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, randy, rattling, red, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, viatic), árdego (lawless, licentious). (various references)

Romanian

zgomotos (bacchanal, blusterous, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, loud, noisily, noisy, obstreperous, rampageous, Randy, rattling, resoundingly, robustious, roisterer, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous, wanton), turbulent (boisterous, disorderly, noisy, obstreperous, Randy, turbulent, unschooled), tumultuos (tempestuously, tumultuous, tumultuously), gãlãgios (blatant, blustering, brawler, clamant, clamorous, loud, noisy, rampageous, Randy, rattling, rioter, rip roaring, roisterer, rowdy, unruly, vociferous), exaltat (enthusiastic, exalted, heated, high strung, hot-headed, in alt, self-intoxicated), dezordonat (dishevelled, disorderly, erratic, ill-regulated, irregular, messy, slipshod, unkempt, untidy), desfrânat (abandoned, bad, debauched, dissipated, dissolute, incontinent, lewd, lickerish, lustful, man of pleasure, meretricious, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, reinless, reprobate, reveller, ribald, rioter, rip, ruttish, salacious, unchaste, unrestrained, unruly, wanton, whoremaster). (various references)

Russian 

обильный (abundant, ample, bountiful, copious, exuberant, generous, hearty, heavy, hefty, lavish, liberal, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, rich, torrential, ungrudging), бунтующий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raskalašan (abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, licentious, loose, rakish, rascally, swinging), buntovan (insurgent, insurrectional, insurrectionary, mutinous, obstreperous, rebellious, revolting, seditious, unruly), bujan (ample, curvaceous, dense, exuberant, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, thick, torrential, wild). (various references)

Spanish

desenfrenado (frantic, lawless, licentious, rampant, self indulgent, unbridled, unchecked, unrestrained, wanton, wild), libertino (debauchee, lawless, libertine, licentious, profligate, promiscuous, rake, rakish, roue, tangle, unchecked, uncurbed, unhalted, unrestrained). (various references)

Swedish

vild (coltish, delirious, ding-dong, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frenetic, haggard, headlong, madcap, phrenetic, rampant, savage, truculant, truculent, untamed, wild, wildcat), utsvävande (abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, licentious, profligate, rakish, wild), upprorisk (insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectional, insurrectionary, mutinous, rebellious, seditious). (various references)

Thai

เกี่ยวกับการจลาจล. (various references)

Turkish

sefih, kargaşa çıkaran, huzuru bozan, hovarda (chaser, dissolute, gadabout, gay, libertine, licentious, masher, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, rascal, rip, spark, sybarite, vagabond, wild), gürültülü (clamant, clamorous, clangorous, disorderly, hilarious, hurly burly, jazz, knockabout, loud, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, roaring, robustious, rumbustious, thundering, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, generous, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide), aşırı derecede (extremely, heartily, heavily, in the extreme, intensely, overly, parlous, plethoric, unco, unduly). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпусний (bestial, debauched, lecherous, libertine, lickerish, meretricious, profligate, rakish, salacious, wide), заколотний (insurgent, mutinous), буйний (blusterous, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, raving, rip roaring, roistering, turbulent). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phóng đãng (immoral, profligate, raffish), om sòm (mobbish, noisy, rakety, roaring, robustious, vociferant, vociferous), náo loạn bừa bâi, huyên náo; hay l� m �"n, �"n � o (bobbery, bounce, larrikin, noisy, rakety, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious). (various references)

Welsh

terfysgaidd (boisterous, turbulent). (various references)

ebria, ebriam, ebrii, ebriis, ebriorum, ebrius, turbulentus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "riotous": riotously, riotousness, riotousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Riotous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Raboutou, riteous, rittous, rotous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: suitor, torous.

-2 letters: riots, roost, roots, rotis, rotos, roust, routs, stour, tiros, toros, torsi, torso, torus, tours, trios, trois.

-3 letters: oots, orts, ours, oust, outs, riot, root, roti, roto, rots, rout, rust, ruts, soot, sori, sort, sour, stir, suit, tiro, tori, toro, tors, tour, trio, tuis.

-4 letters: its, oot, ors, ort, our, out, rot.

+1 letter: goitrous, timorous, tortious, virtuoso.

+2 letters: atrocious, autogiros, notorious, obtrusion, riotously, urologist, virtuosos.

+3 letters: boisterous, consortium, ecotourism, ecotourist, fortuitous, fruitwoods, idolatrous, locutories, obtrusions, outpromise, outscoring, outsnoring, outsoaring, politburos, potpourris, pourpoints, propitious, propositus, prosciutto, prostomium, protrusion, resolution, robustious, roisterous, serotinous, timorously, tortiously, tortuosity, traitorous, urologists, victorious.

+4 letters: atrociously, autoerotism, consortiums, contrarious, corruptions, coruscation, coterminous, counterions, ecotourisms, ecotourists, fibromatous, inoculators, meritorious, moratoriums, morulations, multicolors, neurologist, neurotoxins, nitrogenous, nonroutines, notoriously, obscuration, obstruction, obturations, opportunism, opportunist, ostensorium, outcrossing, outgrossing, outpourings, outpromised, outpromises, outsavoring, outscorning, outsourcing, pittosporum, positronium, productions, prosciuttos, prosecution, prostitutor, protrusions, resolutions, revolutions, rhizomatous, riotousness, sporulation, subornation, subrogation, suppository, terricolous, tourbillons.