orgiastic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀργιαστικός (orgiastikós, “exciting”), from ὀργιαστής (orgiastḗs, “orgy celebrator”), from ὀργιάζειν (orgiázein, “to celebrate orgies”), from ὄργια (órgia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɔɹdʒiˈæstɪk/

  Rhymes: -æstɪk

Adjective

orgiastic (comparative more orgiastic, superlative most orgiastic)

1. Relating to an orgy; uncontrolled, wild. [from the late 16th c.]
   • 1919, Sax Rohmer, Dope

     Dancing was in progress, or, rather, one of those orgiastic ceremonies which passed for dancing during this pagan period.

   • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter IX, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 182:

     Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther … And one fine morning—

Translations

relating to an orgy

• Armenian: գինարբուքային (ginarbukʻayin), խրախճանային (xraxčanayin), օրգիաստիկ (ōrgiastik)
• French: orgiastique (fr)
• Lithuanian: orgiškas
• Macedonian: ра́зуздан m (rázuzdan), оргија́шки m (orgijáški)
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• Polish: orgiastyczny
• Russian: разну́зданный (ru) (raznúzdannyj)
• Spanish: orgiástico

Anagrams

• agoristic