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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
bacchic is an adjective meaning "used of riotously drunken merrymaking". It carries one recorded sense.
used of riotously drunken merrymaking
“a night of bacchanalian revelry”
“carousing bands of drunken soldiers”
“orgiastic festivity”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bacchic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.