roisterous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"The New Year’s Eve crowd was wild and roisterous."
"One ſhip that Lycius did ſhrowd with faithful Orontes / In ſight of captayne was ſwaſht with a royſterus heapefloud [high tide]."

Etymology tree English roister Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English roisterous From roister + -ous.

more roisterous (comparative) most roisterous (superlative)

roisterously roisterousness

boisterous

roistering

Questions

What does roisterous mean?

Loud and disorderly; carousing.

Where does roisterous come from?

Etymology tree English roister Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English roisterous From roister + -ous.

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