rambunctious

ram·bunc·tious

R0032200 (răm-bŭngk′shəs)adj. Boisterous and disorderly.

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[Alteration of rumbustious.]

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ram·bunc′tious·ly adv.ram·bunc′tious·ness n.

rambunctious

(ræmˈbʌŋkʃəs) adjinformal boisterous; unruly[C19: probably from Icelandic ram- (intensifying prefix) + -bunctious, from bumptious] ramˈbunctiously adv ramˈbunctiousness n

ram•bunc•tious

(ræmˈbʌŋk ʃəs)

adj. 1. difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous. 2. turbulently active and noisy. [1820–30, Amer.] ram•bunc′tious•ly, adv. ram•bunc′tious•ness, n.

rambunctious

- Once rumbustious and robusteous, it is probably based on Latin robus, "oak"—implying strength—and can describe a person or animal.See also related terms for oak.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

rambunctious - 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, robustious, rumbustious, unrulydisorderly - undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct"

Translations

turbolento