riotous
1
7.5
- adjective
- /ˈraɪətəs/
- Literature
:
exuberante
- It was by chance that I decided to spend the summer on that slender, riotous island that juts out into the Long Island Sound, 20 miles due east of New York.
- riotous colors
- riotous garden
- riotous flowers
Examples
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The ship rumbles on, wrapped in this sparse beauty, a riotous orange, green, and brown blotch.
Fiction book (2000) -
" As a child, Cassie's hair had looked like Jamie's and Sophie's, but over the years the corkscrew curls had softened, so that now they more closely resembled riotous waves that flowed down to the middle of her back.
Fiction book (2001) -
Jennifer was all smiles as she opened the book to her design, a riotous rainbow of colors.
Fiction book (1992) -
What I liked about the original was his wistful sadness, as well as the riotous excess of leaves that flow around his face.
Academic text (2001) -
The foliage was many intense shades of green, and it was riotous with huge, colorful flowers.
Fiction book (1990) -
This is Earth on the verge of erupting with riotous life, and the only reason you can't paint it is that you can't paint.
Fiction book (2000) -
These striking creations bind faith and exacting beauty in a spectacle of riotous color and highly stylized figures.
Academic text (2006) -
Across the room, the other Diane stood framed by crimson silk draperies opened a crack to a mellowed-wood cottage riotous with climbing roses.
Fiction book (1995) -
She spills not far from the coast, not far from a world still trying to adjust, yet quite distant in such a riotous terrain where fresh growth reaches out and strangles you with its verdant grip.
Fiction book (1991) -
The garden is riotous with color: day lilies, delphiniums, snapdragons, and a dozen other flowers.
Synonyms
51
3.7
Rich and full, like thick plants or juicy fruit
4
6.5
Produced or given in large amounts
3
5.8
Plants that grow thick and healthy with many leaves and flowers
3
6.4
Growing quickly and hard to control, often about plants or weeds
2
6.0
Growing thickly and strongly, like healthy plants or hair
A plant that produces many flowers
Antonyms
How Lush
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Riotous is also used for plants; think of a garden so full it seems to overflow, because riot suggests 'overflow' or wild abundance. So riotous plants are very full and grow in a free, almost wild way.