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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]