Main entry: boisterous, fierce, rough
Definition: violently agitated and turbulent
Usage: boisterous winds and waves; the fierce thunders roar me their music- Ezra Pound; rough weather; rough seas
Main entry: unruly, robustious, rambunctious, boisterous, rumbustious
Definition: noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
Usage: 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
Main entry: knockabout, boisterous
Definition: full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
Usage: boisterous practical jokes; knockabout comedy