riotous
/ˈɹaɪətəs/
riotous adjective: having the characteristics of a riot.
Adjective
riotous
- Having the characteristics of a riot.
- Causing, inciting or taking part in a riot.
- The prison administrators are always planting seeds of hate, division, separatism, and prison peer group racism in the various ethnic groups here, causing friction and riotous situations where one group is set against another.1982 April 10, Roosevelt Williamson, “Prison Racism and Legal Slavery in America”, in Gay Community News, page 15
- Unrestrained and boisterous; degenerate or dissolute.
- Open carriages tend to be draughty and inadequately heated. The passenger in them has no escape from the annoyance of squalling babies, boisterous drunks, and riotous teddy-boys, who may be at the far end of the coach but whose din cannot be shut out.1959 February, “Letters to the Editor: Open-Type Coaches on B.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 135
riotous meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
riotous in Tamil
- ஒழுக்கங்கெட்ட, கலகஞ் செய்கிற
riotous in Urdu
- فتنہ انگیز, جوشیلا, لڑاکا
riotous in Malayalam
- disorderly, unruly, rowdy
- ലഹളകൂട്ടുന്ന, വിപ്ലവോത്സുകമായ, നിയന്ത്രിക്കാൻ വഹിക്കാത്ത, അനിയന്ത്രിതമാംവിധം പ്രക്ഷുബ്ധമായ, അച്ചടക്കമില്ലാത്ത, വിപ്ലുത
- lively, boisterous, loud
- ബഹളമയമായ, ശബ്ദമുഖരിതമായ, ചുറുക്കുള്ള, ജീവത്തായ, സജീവമായ, സോല്ലാസമായ
riotous in Kannada
- ಅಬ್ಬರದ, ಗಲಾಟೆಯ, ಅತಿ ಸಂಭ್ರಮದ, ಗೊಂದಲದ, ತಾರುಮಾರಾದ, ದೊಂಬಿಯ
Examples of riotous in a sentence
- Someone else had given a countercommand — the Spanish soldiers were in riotous retreat!
- Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.
- Peng and a small group of volunteers built memorial arches across the park’s steep roads and paths lined with riotous subtropical vegetation.
Synonyms of riotous
Origin of riotous
Inherited from Middle English riotous, from Anglo-Norman riotous; equivalent to riot + -ous.
Words formed from riotous
- riotous living
- riotously
- riotousness
- unriotous
Questions about riotous
- What does riotous mean?
- Riotous means having the characteristics of a riot.
- What is riotous in Tamil?
- Riotous in Tamil is ஒழுக்கங்கெட்ட, கலகஞ் செய்கிற. See Riotous meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is riotous?
- Riotous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce riotous?
- Riotous is pronounced /ˈɹaɪətəs/.
Words near riotous in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: riotous (page history and authors); riotous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); riotous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); riotous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); riotous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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