dithyrambic adjective 1noun 1forms 3 adjective1 •Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dithyramb; especially, passionate, intoxicated with enthusiasm.Signor Papini, the leader of italian pragmatism, grows fairly dithyrambic over the view that it opens, of man's divinely-creative functions. — 1907 noun1 •A dithyramb.As we have no remains of the dithyrambics of the ancients, we cannot exactly ascertain the measure. — 1775 formsdithyrambics · more dithyrambic · most dithyrambic