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Adjective: bacchanalian  ,ba-ku'neyl-yun or ,ba-ku'ney-lee-un [N. Amer], ,ba-ku'ney-lee-(y)un [Brit]
  1. Used of riotously drunken merrymaking
    "a night of bacchanalian revelry";
    - bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic

See also: drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal]

Encyclopedia: Bacchanalian