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unruly
adjective
1 unruly
Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline:
— An unruly class.
synonyms: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious.
Roget 606:
obstinate,
tenacious,
stubborn,
obdurate,
casehardened;
inflexible
etc.
(hard)
323;
balky;
immovable,
unshakable,
not to be moved;
inert
etc.
172;
unchangeable
etc.
150;
inexorable
etc.
(determined)
604;
mulish,
obstinate as a mule,
pig-headed.
dogged;
sullen,
sulky;
unmoved,
uninfluenced unaffected.
willful,
self-willed,
perverse;
resty†,
restive,
restiff†;
pervicacious†,
wayward,
refractory,
unruly;
heady,
headstrong;
entete [Fr.];
contumacious;
crossgrained†.
arbitrary,
dogmatic,
positive,
bigoted;
prejudiced
etc.
481;
creed-bound;
prepossessed,
infatuated;
stiff-backed,
stiff necked,
stiff hearted;
hard-mouthed,
hidebound;
unyielding;
impervious,
impracticable,
inpersuasible†;
unpersuadable;
intractable,
untractable†;
incorrigible,
deaf to advice,
impervious to reason;
crotchety
etc.
608.
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2 unruly
Unwilling to submit to authority:
— Unruly teenagers.
synonym: disobedient.
Polish: nieposłuszny
3 unruly
Incapable of being controlled:
— The little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly.
synonyms: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable.
Roget 742:
disobedient;
uncomplying,
uncompliant;
unsubmissive†,
unruly,
ungovernable;
breachy†,
insubordinate,
impatient of control,
incorrigible;
restiff†,
restive;
refractory,
contumacious,
recusant
etc.
(refuse)
764;
recalcitrant;
resisting
etc.
719;
lawless,
mutinous,
seditions,
insurgent,
riotous.
unobeyed†;
unbidden.
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Roget 173:
violent,
vehement;
warm;
acute,
sharp;
rough,
rude,
ungentle,
bluff,
boisterous,
wild;
brusque,
abrupt,
waspish;
impetuous;
rampant.
turbulent;
disorderly;
blustering,
raging
etc.
v.;
troublous†,
riotous;
tumultuary†,
tumultuous;
obstreperous,
uproarious;
extravagant;
unmitigated;
ravening,
inextinguishable,
tameless;
frenzied
etc.
(insane)
503.
desperate
etc.
(rash)
863;
infuriate,
furious,
outrageous,
frantic,
hysteric,
in hysterics.
fiery,
flaming,
scorching,
hot,
red-hot,
ebullient.
savage,
fierce,
ferocious,
fierce as a tiger.
excited
etc.
v.;
unquelled†,
unquenched,
unextinguished†,
unrepressed,
unbridled,
unruly;
headstrong,
ungovernable,
unappeasable,
immitigable,
unmitigable†;
uncontrollable,
incontrollable†;
insuppressible,
irrepressible;
orgastic,
orgasmatic,
orgasmic.
spasmodic,
convulsive,
explosive;
detonating
etc.
v.;
volcanic,
meteoric;
stormy
etc.
(wind)
349.
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Moby thesaurus: abandoned, anarchial, anarchic, anarchistic, antinomian, beyond control, boisterous, breachy, chaotic, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, disorderly, disorganized, fractious, froward, go-go, hard, headstrong, immoderate, impatient of control, incontinent, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable, indulgent, insubordinate, insuppressible, intemperate, intractable, irrepressible, lawless, lax, licentious, loose, mutinous, naughty, nihilistic, nonrestrictive, obstreperous, ornery, out of control, out of hand, permissive, perverse, raffish, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, raucous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reinless, resistant, resisting, restive, revolutionary, riotous, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, rumbustious, shrewish, stormy, stubborn, syndicalistic, tempestuous, termagant, terrorist, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, unbiddable, unbridled, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, unforced, ungovernable, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmastered, unmeasured, unmoldable, unmuzzled, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unsubdued, unsubmissive, unsuppressed, untoward, violent, wanton, wayward, wild ... show more.
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