Local English word record

robustious

adjective · 1 sense

noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

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Examples

  • 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

Word relationships

Synonyms

boisterous, rambunctious, rumbustious, unruly

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Princeton WordNet 3.0