adjective
- Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline.
- usage: "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class"
- synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious
- Unwilling to submit to authority.
- usage: "unruly teenagers"
- synonyms: disobedient
- Of persons.
- usage: "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"
- synonyms: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable
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