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boisterous

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boisterous in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  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"
    boisterous  rambunctious  robustious  rumbustious  unruly 
  2. full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
    "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy"
    boisterous  knockabout 
  3. 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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