Usually means: Uncontrolled, violent public disturbance, chaos.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word riotous:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. riotous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. riotous: Merriam-Webster
  3. riotous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. riotous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. riotous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. riotous: Vocabulary.com
  7. Riotous, riotous: Wordnik
  8. riotous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. riotous: Wiktionary
  10. riotous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. riotous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. riotous: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. riotous: Dictionary.com
  14. Riotous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. riotous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. riotous: Rhymezone
  17. riotous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. riotous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. riotous: FreeDictionary.org
  20. riotous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. riotous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. riotous: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. riotous: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. riotous: Encyclopedia

(Note: See riotously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having the characteristics of a riot.
adjective:  Causing, inciting or taking part in a riot.
adjective:  Unrestrained and boisterous; degenerate or dissolute.

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