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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Riotous \Ri"ot*ous\, adjective [OF. rioteux.]
1. Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious.
The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. --Luke xv. 13.
2. Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious. -- {Ri"ot*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Ri"ot*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
riotous
adjective
1: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" [syn: {exuberant}, {lush}, {luxuriant}, {profuse}]
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" [syn: {disruptive}, {troubled}, {tumultuous}, {turbulent}]
3: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: {debauched}, {degenerate}, {degraded}, {dissipated}, {dissolute}, {libertine}, {profligate}, {fast}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
173 Moby Thesaurus words for "riotous": abandoned, abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, boisterous, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, brawling, breakaway, chaotic, copious, debauched, dense, diffuse, disordered, disorderly, dissipated, dissolute, effuse, epidemic, exhaustless, extravagant, extreme, extremistic, exuberant, factious, fat, fertile, flourishing, flush, free-living, full, galore, generous, go-go, gross, heavy, high-living, immoderate, impenetrable, in plenty, in quantity, incontinent, indulgent, inexhaustible, insurgent, insurrectionary, intemperate, irrepressible, jungled, jungly, lavish, lawless, lax, liberal, licentious, loose, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, much, mutineering, mutinous, noisy, nonrestrictive, numerous, obstreperous, opulent, out of control, out of hand, overabundant, overbounteous, overcopious, overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overgrown, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous, overprolific, overrun, permissive, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plethoric, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, pullulating, rambunctious, rampant, rank, rebel, rebellious, reinless, replete, revolutional, revolutionary, rich, rife, robustious, roisterous, rollicking, rowdy, rumbustious, running over, seditionary, seditious, subversive, superabundant, swarming, teeming, terrorist, thick, traitorous, treasonable, tumultuous, turbulent, unbridled, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncurbed, unforced, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmanageable, unmastered, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsubdued, unsuppressed, unweeded, uproarious, violent, wanton, wealthy, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, wild
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