Pertaining to the festivals celebrated in honor of Saturn.
Of the character of the Saturnalia of ancient Rome; hence, characterized by unrestrained license and reveling; licentious; loose; dissolute.
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adjective.
Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.
adjective.
Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute.
Word Usage
"Her latest collection of short stories offers not only the poetry of Roberts's exquisite sensibilities but a saturnalian experience: the theatre of action is the dirt under our feet and fingernails, the unmediated matter of life and death."