ORGIASTIC Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

orgiastic

adjective

Definition of orgiastic

as in frenzied

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Recent Examples of orgiastic The resulting film, Yes—opening this week in New York City—begins with an orgiastic carnival among warmongers in Tel Aviv. — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 25 Mar. 2026 Along the road of The Bride and Frank’s orgiastic spree, a Berlin-like underground club called Depravation (applause to Gyllenhaal for bringing Swedish music artist Fever Ray to the big screen) could’ve been a showstopping setpiece. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Mar. 2026 This is likewise the thrust of Salò, based on the Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom, an orgiastic, disturbing carnival of torture, rape, and killing, reset by Pasolini in the town from which fascism reigned in the 1940s. — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026 Instead of the orgiastic madhouse that fans of Monster and American Horror Story have grown accustomed to, Devil in Disguise is a somber affair, as aesthetically chilly as a December in Des Plaines, Illinois. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for orgiastic

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The Americans, playing in front of a frenzied crowed on home soil in the San Francisco Bay Area, were down a man and nursing a 1-0 lead.

— Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
As Norway has advanced in the World Cup, the atmosphere has grown more frenzied in the country than even during a summer or winter Olympics, Tufte said.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 1 July 2026

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Angela’s bookish young son Jonathan (Danny Pintauro) and her gloriously uninhibited mother Mona (Katherine Helmond) rounded out the household.

— JP Mangalindan, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026
But what was missing was more of a winning spirit, more aggressive, uninhibited and self-assured.

— Max Mathews, New York Times, 9 June 2026

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