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adjectiveroisterous (comparative more roisterous, superlative most roisterous)
comparative more roisterous · superlative most roisterous
- Loud and disorderly; carousing.
The New Year’s Eve crowd was wild and roisterous.
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One ſhip that Lycius did ſhrowd with faithful Orontes / In ſight of captayne was ſwaſht with a royſterus heapefloud [high tide].
1582, “The Firste Booke of Virgil His Æneis”, in Richard Stanyhurst, transl., The First Foure Bookes of Virgils Æneis, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman […], published 1583, →OCLC, page 3Synonyms: roistering
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adjectiveLoud and disorderly; carousing.
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roisterous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/roisterous
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