Adjective bacchanal has 1 sense
- bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic - used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"
Antonym: sober (indirect, via intoxicated)
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Noun bacchanal has 3 senses
- drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant - someone who engages in drinking bouts
--1 is a kind of drinker, imbiber, toper, juicer
- bacchant, bacchanal - a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
--2 is a kind of fan, buff, devotee, lover
- orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry - a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
--3 is a kind of revel, revelry
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