riotous
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.
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characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination“riotous times”
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synonyms:
disruptive, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent
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unquiet
characterized by unrest or disorder
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unquiet
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unrestrained by convention or morality“riotous living”
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synonyms:
debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate
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immoral
deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
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immoral
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produced or growing in extreme abundance
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Oyuna of the Kerait tribe recounts how she pursued her dream of racing across the Mongolian steppes as a youth despite being crippled by a horse.
After a plague of dreamlessness spreads across North America, seventeen-year-old Frenchie is captured so the Canadian government can harvest his bone marrow as a cure. Frenchie must find a way to escape and reunite with his found family.
Anya, Ivan, and the magical dragon set out on a mission to bring Anya's father home from war, but during their journey, they encounter the Nightingale — a monster who is terrorizing travelers in the forest.
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