roisterer

Loud party animal

A roisterer is someone who revels noisily, drinking and carousing with boisterous abandon.

The word suggests loud, swaggering merrymaking—the kind of person who dominates a tavern with rowdy good cheer: The roisterers spilled out of the pub at closing time.

Literary and old-fashioned.

carousing

reveler

One who celebrates boisterously

bacchanalian · bon vivant · partygoer · celebrant · frolicker · debauchee · rake · libertine · hedonist · pleasure-seeker

boisterous

rowdy

Noisily disorderly

riotous · obstreperous · wild · tumultuous · loud · noisy · uproarious · clamorous · brash · disorderly

revelry

carousing

Boisterous drinking spree

jollification · conviviality · gaiety · frolic · bacchanalia · wassail · spree · binge · pub crawl · bar hopping

Opposites
social energy and revelry

roistererkilljoy

One who dampens merriment

wet blanket · party pooper · wallflower · spoilsport · buzzkill

temperament and disposition

roisterergrinch

Pleasure-ruining curmudgeon

pessimist · ascetic · puritan · prude · moralist

Family

roistering, roister

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG