1
[ adjective ] noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

Examples

"a boisterous crowd" "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand" "a robustious group of teenagers" "an unruly class"

Used in print

(Chicago Daily Tribune...)

Another is a wily countryman called Larkin , whose blandly boisterous progress has been chronicled , I believe , in earlier volumes of Mr._Bates ' comedie_humaine .

Related terms

disorderly

2
[ adjective ] full of rough and exuberant animal spirits

Synonyms

knockabout

Examples

"boisterous practical jokes" "knockabout comedy"

Related terms

spirited

3
[ adjective ] violently agitated and turbulent

Synonyms

rough fierce

Examples

"boisterous winds and waves" "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound "rough weather" "rough seas"

Related terms

stormy

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