bacchanalian Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite used of riotously drunken merrymaking
    bacchic; orgiastic; bacchanal; carousing.
    • a night of bacchanalian revelry
    • carousing bands of drunken soldiers
    • orgiastic festivity

WordNet


Bac`cha*na"li*an adjective
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
    Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper.

Webster 1913