Definition of bacchanal

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • bacchanal is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 18
  • bacchanal is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 18
  • bacchanal is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 22

Definition of bacchanal


  • a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. bacchanalia
    2. debauch
    3. debauchery
    4. drunken revelry
    5. orgy
    6. riot
    7. saturnalia
  • someone who engages in drinking bouts (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. bacchant
    2. drunken reveler
    3. drunken reveller
  • used of riotously drunken merrymaking (adjective)

    Examples

    1. a night of bacchanalian revelry

    Synonyms

    1. bacchanalian
    2. bacchic
    3. carousing
    4. orgiastic
  • a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. bacchant

See definition of bacchanal in Merriam Webster