Definitions of bacchanalian

1. A bacchanal.

2. One who indulges in drunken revels.

3. One who indulges to excess in intoxicating drinks; one engaged in noisy and drunken revels.

4. used of riotously drunken merrymaking; " a night of bacchanalian revelry"; " carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; " orgiastic festivity"

5. Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.

6. Pertaining to the Bacchanalia, a feast in honor of Bacchus, the god of wine; hence, pertaining to drunkenness and revelry. Also, bacchanal.

7. Of or like bacchanalia.

8. Revelling in intemperate drinking; riotous; noisy.

9. Riotous; pertaining to revelling and drinking.