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Boisterous

  1. adjective

    noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

    a boisterous crowd

    Similar: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly

  2. adjective

    full of rough and exuberant animal spirits

    boisterous practical jokes

    Similar: knockabout

  3. adjective

    violently agitated and turbulent; ; - Ezra Pound

    boisterous winds and waves

    Similar: fierce, rough

Word family

boisterousness · boisterously

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