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
- temporarily
- temporariness
- temporary
- temporary hardness
- temporary ley
- temporise
- temporization
- temporize
- temporizer
- temporomandibular joint
- tempo rubato
- Tempranillo
- temps levé
- tempt
- temptability
- temptable
- temptation
- tempter
- tempt fate (or providence)
- tempting
- temptingly
- temp to perm
- temptress
- tempura
- tempus fugit