Meanings
comparative more orgiastic · superlative most orgiastic
- Relating to an orgy; uncontrolled, wild.First known use the late 16th c.
1919, Sax Rohmer, Dope Dancing was in progress, or, rather, one of those orgiastic ceremonies which passed for dancing during this pagan period.
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther … And one fine morning—
1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 9, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, page 182
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveused of frenzied sexual activity
adjectiveused of riotously drunken merrymaking
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekὀργιαστικός“exciting”
- Englishorgiastic
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀργιαστικός (orgiastikós, “exciting”), from ὀργιαστής (orgiastḗs, “orgy celebrator”), from ὀργιάζειν (orgiázein, “to celebrate orgies”), from ὄργια (órgia).
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Bulgarian разюздан, необуздан
- разюздан (razjuzdan)relating to an orgy
- необуздан (neobuzdan)relating to an orgy
French orgiastique
- orgiastiquerelating to an orgy
Lithuanian orgiškas
- orgiškasrelating to an orgy
Polish orgiastyczny
- orgiastycznyrelating to an orgy
Russian разну́зданный
- разну́зданный (raznúzdannyj)relating to an orgy
Spanish orgiástico
- orgiásticorelating to an orgy
Swedish orgiastisk
- orgiastiskrelating to an orgy
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orgiastic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orgiastic
“orgiastic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/orgiastic. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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