Meaning of BOISTEROUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'boysturus
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- [adj] violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
- [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] full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy"
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| | Synonyms: | | disorderly, fierce, knockabout, rambunctious, robustious, rough, rumbustious, spirited, stormy, unruly |
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| | Definition: | | \Bois"ter*ous\, a. [OE. boistous; of uncertain
origin; cf. W. bwyst wild, savage, wildness, ferocity,
bwystus ferocious.]
1. Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
[Obs.] ``Boisterous sword.'' ``Boisterous hand.'' --Shak.
2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy
turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
The waters swell before a boisterous storm. --Shak.
The brute and boisterous force of violent men.
--Milton.
3. Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous
behavior.
I like not that loud, boisterous man. --Addison.
4. Vehement; excessive. [R.]
The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for
them. --Woodward.
Syn: Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; turbulent; furious;
tumultuous; noisy; impetuous; vehement.
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| | Related Terms: | | blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, brassy, brawling, brazen, bullying, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, disorderly, exuberant, harum-scarum, hectoring, knockabout, knock-down-and-drag-out, lively, loudmouthed, mafficking, multivocal, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, raging, rambunctious, rampageous, ranting, raucous, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rough, rough-and-tumble, rowdy, rowdyish, storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, strident, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, termagant, tumultuous, turbulent, undisciplined, unruly, uproarious, vociferant, vociferous, wild |
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