corybantic
/ˌkɒrɪˈbantɪk
/adjective
Wild; frenzied: rock and roll’s corybantic gyrations...
- We are at least spared the sight of these noise producers cavorting about the stage in a sort of corybantic frenzy.
- Where his dexterous playing and effortless meter manipulation often buoyed the band's corybantic compositions, here, he's sadly mollified.
- Everybody's dead, ‘declares a corybantic Stephanie in the opening line of the play.’
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Corybantes, Latin name of the priests of Cybele, a Phrygian goddess of nature, who performed wild dances, from Greek Korubantes + -ic.
Rhymes
- pan-Americanism
- Panamic
- Panamint Range
- pan and scan
- pan-and-tilt
- Pan-Anglican
- pan-Anglo-Saxon
- panaquilon
- pan-Arab
- pan-Arabic
- pan-Arabism
- pan-Arabist
- panarchy
- panaritium
- panarthritis
- panary
- pan-Asian
- panatella
- Panathenaea
- Panathenaean
- Panathenaic
- Panathenaic amphora
- Panathenaic frieze
- Panathenaic vase
- panatom