bacchic

Speech parts

1. bacchic - Adjective

2. bacchic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Bacchical

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bacchanal orgiastic carousing bacchanalian merry jolly allegro airy high light sportive sprightly bright happy lively
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Antonyms

blue unhappy depressed troubled sad unfortunate
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Examples

a night of bacchanalian revelry Source: Internet

carousing bands of drunken soldiers Source: Internet

orgiastic festivity Source: Internet

But more importantly, rock was able to generate an ancient energy, a kind of Bacchic sensibility that had to do with excess, spiritual danger, and sex. Source: Internet

Roman etymologists thought that the soldiers' chant of triumpe was a borrowing via Etruscan of the Greek thriambus (θρίαμβος), cried out by satyrs and other attendants in Dionysian and Bacchic processions. Source: Internet

The reformed, officially approved Bacchic cults would have borne little resemblance to the earlier crowded, ecstatic and uninhibited Bacchanalia. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Baccharis viminea bacchiac bacchian bacchical bacchius bacchus