unruly
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
unruly
adj 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" [syn: {boisterous},
{rambunctious}, {robustious}, {rumbustious}, {unruly}]
2: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn:
{disobedient}, {unruly}]
3: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited,
but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: {indocile},
{uncontrollable}, {ungovernable}, {unruly}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Unruly \Un*rul"y\, a. [Compar. {Unrulier}, superl. {Unruliest}.]
[Pref. un- not + rule. Cf. {Ruly}.]
Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to
violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly
boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct.
[1913 Webster]
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
full of deadly poison. --James iii.
8.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "unruly":
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
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