About The Word Boisterous
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Boisterous
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What's The Definition Of Boisterous?
[adj] violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
[adj] 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" [adj] full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy" Synonyms | Synonyms for Boisterous: disorderly | fierce | knockabout | rambunctious | robustious | rough | rumbustious | spirited | stormy | unruly Related Terms | Find terms related to Boisterous: blaring | blatant | blatting | blustering | blusterous | blustery | brassy | brawling | brazen | bullying | clamant | clamorous | clamoursome | clanging | clangorous | clattery | disorderly | exuberant | harum-scarum | hectoring | knockabout | knock-down-and-drag-out | lively | loudmouthed | mafficking | multivocal | noiseful | noisy | obstreperous | openmouthed | rackety | raging | rambunctious | rampageous | ranting | raucous | raving | riotous | rip-roaring | roistering | roisterous | rollicking | rough | rough-and-tumble | rowdy | rowdyish | storming | stormy | strepitant | strepitous | strident | swaggering | swashbuckling | swashing | tempestuous | termagant | tumultuous | turbulent | undisciplined | unruly | uproarious | vociferant | vociferous | wild See Also | Boisterous In Webster's Dictionary \Bois"ter*ous\, a. [OE. boistous; of uncertain
origin; cf. W. bwyst wild, savage, wildness, ferocity,
bwystus ferocious.]
1. Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
[Obs.] ``Boisterous sword.'' ``Boisterous hand.'' --Shak.
2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy
turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
The waters swell before a boisterous storm. --Shak.
The brute and boisterous force of violent men.
--Milton.
3. Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous
behavior.
I like not that loud, boisterous man. --Addison.
4. Vehement; excessive. [R.]
The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for
them. --Woodward.
Syn: Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; turbulent; furious;
tumultuous; noisy; impetuous; vehement.
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