Search Result for "bacchic":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. used of riotously drunken merrymaking;
- Example: "a night of bacchanalian revelry"
- Example: "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"
- Example: "orgiastic festivity"
[syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bacchic \Bac"chic\, Bacchical \Bac"chic*al\, a. [L. Bacchicus, Gr. Bakchiko`s.] Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication; riotously drunken; -- used of revelrous gatherings. Syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bibulous, carousing, drunken(prenominal), orgiastic, riotous [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "bacchic": Dionysiac, amok, berserk, corybantic, desperate, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, furious, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, rabid, raging, ranting, raving, raving mad, running wild, stark-raving mad, uncontrollable, violent, wild
