unruly

  • (s) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
    • 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
    boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious,
  • (s) unwilling to submit to authority
    • unruly teenagers
    disobedient,
  • (s) of persons
    • the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly
    indocile, ungovernable, uncontrollable,

Synonyms

boisterous rambunctious robustious rumbustious disobedient indocile ungovernable uncontrollable

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