Meaning of UNRULY
| Pronunciation: | | un'roolee
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- [adj] of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers"
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| | Synonyms: | | boisterous, disobedient, disorderly, indocile, insubordinate, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
full of deadly poison. --James iii.
8.
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