| 单词 | riotous |
| 释义 | riotous (once / 2204 pages) 1adj 2adj 3adj Anything riotous is disorderly, chaotic, and loud. Riotous things can also be abundant. Since a riot is a disturbance where people get out of control and become violent, riotous things are also loud, disruptive, and out of hand. If everyone in class speaks at once to answer a question, that's a riotous response. Chaos is always riotous. The opposite of riotous would be calm, civilized, and peaceful. Also, you can say that lush, abundant things are riotous. If an apple tree is producing an unusually large amount of apples, it's riotous. WORD FAMILYriotous: riotously+/riot: rioted, rioter, rioting, riotous, riots/rioter: rioters/rioting: riotings USAGE EXAMPLESShe seems a cheerful sort of person, with a friendly, open face framed with riotous curls. The New Yorker(Dec 03, 2016) The woman stood at Aunty Ifeoma’s window, her hair in a riotous curly perm swaying in the wind. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) The riotous “Demoiselles” and unfinished “Large Glass” certainly are. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) 1 adj characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination 2riotous times Syn disruptive, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent unquiet characterized by unrest or disorder adj unrestrained by convention or morality 3riotous living Syn debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate immoral deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong adj produced or growing in extreme abundance their riotous blooming Syn exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse abundant present in great quantity |
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