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bacchanalian

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore B words

marked by riotous, unrestrained revelry and drunken festivity

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Bacchanalian in a sentence

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The party descended into a bacchanalian uproar by midnight.

Synonyms
riotousdebauchedorgiasticdrunken
Antonyms
soberrestrained

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Once a blank supporter of the policy, the governor now denounces it at every opportunity, embarrassed that she ever endorsed it.

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Bacchanalian (adjective) means marked by riotous, unrestrained revelry and drunken festivity
Here is bacchanalian used in an example sentence: "The party descended into a bacchanalian uproar by midnight."
Common synonyms for bacchanalian include riotous, debauched, orgiastic, drunken.
Antonyms of bacchanalian include sober, restrained.
Bacchanalian is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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