bacchanal

bacchanal is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Relating to Bacchus or his festival. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 22 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
2. adjective. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
3. noun. A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser.
4. noun. The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
5. noun. Drunken revelry; an orgy.
6. noun. A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.
7. noun. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

   Synonyms: bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, orgy, riot, saturnalia

8. noun. a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus

   Synonyms: bacchant

9. noun. someone who engages in drinking bouts

   Synonyms: bacchant

10. adjective. used of riotously drunken merrymaking

    "a night of bacchanalian revelry"

    "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"

    Synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic

Synonyms

bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, orgy, riot, saturnalia, bacchant, bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic

Common word forms

bacchanals, bacchanalize

Words from these letters

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