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adjective

as in boisterous

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roistering

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noun

as in merrymaking

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verb

present participle of roister
as in carousing
to take part in drunken revelry the earl's wastrel son had spent the best part of his youth roistering and gambling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for roistering
  1. boisterous
  2. merrymaking
  3. carousing
  4. raucous
  5. revelry
  6. drinking
  7. rowdy
  8. frolicking
Adjective
  • During the first Senate debate of the cycle in September at the Kansas State Fairgrounds, Marshall was repeatedly heckled and interrupted by boisterous audience members.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Duncombe’s friends remember her sunny spirit, boisterous and infectious laugh, unbridled optimism and passion for new experiences.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of boisterous
Noun
  • Nor did great merrymaking surround its 2001 move to pioneer quantitative easing.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Once ground was completely covered with shards of tableware, folks journeyed from their seats into the center of the room for more dancing and merrymaking.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Definition of merrymaking
Verb
  • There are certainly fans and pundits who feel that anything short of a title shouldn’t be celebrated in sports, and some who think carousing over anything less is especially beneath the Yankees, who have won 27 World Series but zero since 2009.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Three sitting rooms are complemented by a further three members’ social spaces for carousing in, concealed behind a subtle screen (here, DJs including Goldierocks make appearances, and mobile snaps are banned; staff politely place a sticker over mobile camera lenses).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026
Definition of carousing
Adjective
  • The crowd at the suddenly raucous Tropicana Field, one of baseball’s quietest venues during most regular season contests, roared in approval.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Her main rival for that was the raucous set from George Wallace, who partly brought the house down with a bit about jokes for the high rollers in the front row versus the nosebleed seats.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of raucous
Noun
  • Here are five things that stood out from a night of bluster and revelry in Park City.
    — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
  • But the more profound issue was the grubby death-cult revelry that a live stream would entail.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of revelry
Verb
  • But there’s a difference between drinking before entering the ring once and corrupting bullfighting for years.
    — Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Pearce has stopped drinking alcohol and has turned her experience into an effort to support other breast cancer survivors.
    — Melissa May, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of drinking
Adjective
  • Still, devotees of John Waters, Sean Baker, Todd Solondz and the Safdie brothers will sense that DeFalco is a kindred spirit, a filmmaker with an open-minded curiosity about the rowdier parts of the human zoo.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Having been raised in a very golf-centric family myself, what struck me about your experience is how rowdy the tournament crowds have gotten.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of rowdy
Noun
  • Hummel Park, which straddles White Lick Creek near Plainfield, has a unique denizen frolicking in its woods and meadows.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 May 2026
Definition of frolicking
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