Definition of BACCHANAL

bacchanal

Plural: bacchanals

Noun

  • someone who engages in drinking bouts
  • a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
  • a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
  • A devotee of Bacchus.
  • Someone who indulges in drunken partying; someone noisy and riotous when intoxicated.
  • The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
  • Drunken revelry; an orgy.
  • A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus.
  • drama, ruckus, fiasco

Adjective Satellite

  • used of riotously drunken merrymaking
    • "a night of bacchanalian revelry"

Adj

  • Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
  • Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

Origin / Etymology

From Latin Bacchānālis (“of or pertaining to Bacchus”). See Bacchanalia.

Synonyms

bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchant, bacchic, carousing, debauch, debauchery, drunken reveler, drunken reveller, drunken revelry, orgiastic, orgy, riot, saturnalia

Scrabble Score: 18

bacchanal: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
bacchanal: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bacchanal: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 22

bacchanal: valid Words With Friends Word