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roysterous

roysterous is the obsolete form of roisterous.

Meaning of roisterous

Adjective

roisterous (comparative more roisterous, superlative most roisterous)

  1. Loud and disorderly; carousing.
    • The New Year’s Eve crowd was wild and roisterous.
    Synonyms:
    roistering

Forms of roysterous

comparativemore roysterous
superlativemost roysterous

Questions about roysterous

What is roysterous the obsolete form of?
Roysterous is the obsolete form of roisterous.

Words near roysterous in the dictionary

  1. roystered
  2. roysterer
  3. roysterers
  4. roystering
  5. roysterings
  6. roysterous
  7. roysters
  8. roysting
  9. Royston
  10. Royston crow
  11. Royston crows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roysterous (page history and authors); roisterous (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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