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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline;
- Example: "a boisterous crowd"
- Example: "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"
- Example: "a robustious group of teenagers"
- Example: "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"
- Example: "an unruly class"
[syn: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly]

2. unwilling to submit to authority;
- Example: "unruly teenagers"
[syn: disobedient, unruly]

3. of persons;
- Example: "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"
[syn: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unruly \Unruly\
   See ruly.


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Unruly \Un*rul"y\, a. [Compar. Unrulier, superl. Unruliest.]
   [Pref. un- not + rule. Cf. Ruly.]
   Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to
   violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly
   boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct.
   [1913 Webster]

         But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
         full of deadly poison.                   --James iii.
                                                  8.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

unruly
    adj 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" [syn: boisterous,
           rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly]
    2: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn:
       disobedient, unruly]
    3: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited,
       but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: indocile,
       uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

108 Moby Thesaurus words for "unruly":
   abandoned, anarchial, anarchic, anarchistic, antinomian,
   beyond control, boisterous, breachy, chaotic, contrary,
   contumacious, defiant, disobedient, disorderly, disorganized,
   fractious, froward, go-go, hard, headstrong, immoderate,
   impatient of control, incontinent, incorrigible, indocile,
   indomitable, indulgent, insubordinate, insuppressible, intemperate,
   intractable, irrepressible, lawless, lax, licentious, loose,
   mutinous, naughty, nihilistic, nonrestrictive, obstreperous,
   ornery, out of control, out of hand, permissive, perverse, raffish,
   rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, raucous, rebellious,
   recalcitrant, refractory, reinless, resistant, resisting, restive,
   revolutionary, riotous, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, rumbustious,
   shrewish, stormy, stubborn, syndicalistic, tempestuous, termagant,
   terrorist, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, unbiddable, unbridled,
   unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrollable,
   uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, unforced,
   ungovernable, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmalleable, unmanageable,
   unmastered, unmeasured, unmoldable, unmuzzled, unreined,
   unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unsubdued,
   unsubmissive, unsuppressed, untoward, violent, wanton, wayward,
   wild