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royetous

royetous is the obsolete form of riotous.

Meaning of riotous

Adjective

riotous

  1. Having the characteristics of a riot.
  2. 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
  3. 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

Forms of royetous

comparativemore royetous
superlativemost royetous

Questions about royetous

What is royetous the obsolete form of?
Royetous is the obsolete form of riotous.

Words near royetous in the dictionary

  1. Royden
  2. Roydon
  3. royds
  4. Roye
  5. Royes
  6. royetous
  7. ROYGBIV
  8. Roylance
  9. Roylances
  10. Royle
  11. Royles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: royetous (page history and authors); riotous (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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