adjective
- Produced or growing in extreme abundance.
- usage: "their riotous blooming"
- Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: disruptive, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent
- Unrestrained by convention or morality.
- usage: "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
- synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, fast
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