Meaning & Definition of Riotous in English

1. Produced or growing in extreme abundance

• "Their riotous blooming"

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"

3. Unrestrained by convention or morality

• "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"

• "Deplorably dissipated and degraded"

• "Riotous living"

• "Fast women"