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单词 riotous
释义
riotous
(rətəs )
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
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.
Synonyms: reckless, wild, outrageous, lavish  
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
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.
...a riotous exhibition of boogie-woogie piano playing.
Synonyms: unrestrained, wild, loud, noisy  
riotously adverb [ADVERB adjective/-ed]
...a slapstick affair which I found riotously amusing.
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
You can describe things as riotous when they are very colourful or decorative rather than plain or simple.
...a riotous collection of gaudy and glamorous dresses.
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