bacchanal

1. 1.

   used of riotously drunken merrymaking

   “a night of bacchanalian revelry”

   “carousing bands of drunken soldiers”

   “orgiastic festivity”

   Synonymsbacchanalianbacchiccarousingorgiastic

   Similarintoxicated

Other forms of bacchanal

plural

bacchanals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bacchanal

What does bacchanal mean?

bacchanal means "someone who engages in drinking bouts". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bacchanal?

bacchanal has 3 syllables: bac-cha-nal. The stress falls on "cha". In IPA it is /bəˈkeɪnəl/.

What is another word for bacchanal?

Close synonyms include drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchant, bacchant, orgy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bacchanal a common word?

bacchanal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.