Definition of "dithyrambic" in English

adjective

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; especially, passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm.

   • The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of transformed people, for whom their social past, their civic position, is entirely forgotten.

noun

1. A dithyramb.

   • 1775, Anonymous, review of the West translation of Pindar's Olympic Odes, in The Critical Review, volume 40, page 451, As we have no remains of the dithyrambics of the ancients, we cannot exactly ascertain the measure.