Definitions for unruly

Definitions for (adj) unruly

Main entry: uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, indocile

Definition: of persons

Usage: the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly


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: disobedient, unruly

Definition: unwilling to submit to authority

Usage: unruly teenagers


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