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Meaning of riotous

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  riotous
      adj 1: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous
             blooming" [syn: {exuberant}, {lush}, {luxuriant},
             {profuse}, {riotous}]
      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" [syn: {disruptive}, {riotous}, {troubled},
         {tumultuous}, {turbulent}]
      3: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a
         debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and
         degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: {debauched},
         {degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated}, {dissolute},
         {libertine}, {profligate}, {riotous}, {fast}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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