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RIOTOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does riotously mean?
• RIOTOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb RIOTOUSLY has 2 senses:
1. in a tumultuous and riotous manner
2. in an exuberant manner
Familiarity information: RIOTOUSLY used as an adverb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a tumultuous and riotous manner
Synonyms:
riotously; tumultuously
Context example:
the crowd was demonstrating tumultuously
Pertainym:
riotous (characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In an exuberant manner
Synonyms:
exuberantly; riotously
Context example:
the exuberantly baroque decoration of the church
Pertainym:
riotous (produced or growing in extreme abundance)
Context examples
Sometimes they went hungry, sometimes they feasted riotously, all according to the abundance of game and the fortune of hunting.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The knowledge that I loved her rushed upon me with the terror, and with both emotions gripping at my heart and causing my blood at the same time to chill and to leap riotously, I felt myself drawn by a power without me and beyond me, and found my eyes returning against my will to gaze into the eyes of Wolf Larsen.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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