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boisterous in WordNet English dictionary
adjective- 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"
boisterous rambunctious robustious rumbustious unruly
- full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
"boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy"
boisterous knockabout
- violently agitated and turbulent
"boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
boisterous fierce rough
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