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Definition of 'boisterous'

Adjective

  1. 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"
       Synonyms: rambunctious robustious rumbustious unruly
  2. full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy"
       Synonyms: knockabout
  3. violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
       Synonyms: fierce rough


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