bacchic

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
bacchic
    adj 1: used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of
           bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken
           soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: {bacchanalian},
           {bacchanal}, {bacchic}, {carousing}, {orgiastic}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bacchic \Bac"chic\, Bacchical \Bac"chic*al\, a. [L. Bacchicus,
   Gr. Bakchiko`s.]
   Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with
   intoxication; riotously drunken; -- used of revelrous
   gatherings.

   Syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bibulous, carousing,
        drunken(prenominal), orgiastic, riotous
        [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "bacchic":
      Dionysiac, amok, berserk, corybantic, desperate, frantic, frenetic,
      frenzied, furious, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic,
      maniac, maniacal, rabid, raging, ranting, raving, raving mad,
      running wild, stark-raving mad, uncontrollable, violent, wild
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