carousing

7.9

Noisy, lively behavior at a party where people drink a lot

adjective
/kəˈraʊzɪŋ/

: fiestero

After the wedding, they were carousing until dawn.

Examples

The carousing crowd spilled into the streets after the big win.
She avoided the carousing groups gathering around the tavern.
After hours of carousing celebration, the party finally ended at dawn.
The carousing crowd filled the streets at midnight.
The carousing guests danced joyfully, celebrating the wedding with loud laughter and cheers.
During the festival, the carousing revelers filled the town square, singing and sharing stories late into the night.
At the birthday party, the carousing friends raised their glasses, toasting to another year of adventures.

Synonyms

orgiastic

vscarousing

1 9.9

Full of wild, noisy celebration with much drinking and dancing

is about noisy, lively and drunken revelry without extra emphasis on frenzy

bacchanalian

vscarousing

Literature

1 9.9

A loud, wild party with a lot of drinking and dancing

is about lively, drunken social gatherings rather than ritual or mythic rites

bacchanal

vscarousing

Literature

9.9

Full of wild drinking and loud, out-of-control celebration

is used for ordinary noisy, lively and drunk people or gatherings

bacchantic

vscarousing

Archaic

9.9

Very wild and noisy because people are drinking and celebrating

focuses on loud, lively celebration rather than participants' wild behaviour

bacchic

vscarousing

Archaic

9.9

Full of wild, noisy drinking and dancing

is the common description for noisy, lively drunken social activity

Antonyms

calm

52 1.0

A quiet, peaceful feeling that helps you stay steady

to abstain

18 5.0

To choose not to take something, often for health or religious reasons

How Rowdy

riotous

2 7.9

carousing

7.9

lively

111 1.3

calm

735 1.0

Surface Forms

carousing positive

Morphology

carousing = carouse (transparent) = carouse + ing

A regular present-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'carouse', with the adjectival meaning directly derived from the action.

Etymology

Carousing comes from the older verb carouse, and one helpful story links carouse to the German phrase gar aus trinken meaning 'drink completely'. So, to be carousing is to be noisy and drunk at a lively party, which makes the word easier to remember.