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Meaning of 'boisterous' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Boisterous [ a.]
- Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
- Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
- Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior.
- Vehement; excessive.

Meaning of 'boisterous' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . boisterous [ s]
Meaning (1):
- noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
Example in sentence:
  • a boisterous crowd;
  • a robustious group of teenagers;
  • a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand;
  • an unruly class;
  • beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings
Meaning (2):
- full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
Example in sentence:
  • boisterous practical jokes;
  • knockabout comedy
Meaning (3):
- violently agitated and turbulent
Example in sentence:
  • boisterous winds and waves;
  • rough seas;
  • rough weather;
  • the fierce thunders roar me their music

Nearby Words:

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