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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Robustious \Ro*bus"tious\, a. [Cf. L. robusteus of oak.]
   Robust. [Obs. or Humorous] --W. Irving.
   [1913 Webster]

         In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more
         robustious manner.                       --Milton.
   [1913 Webster] -- Ro*bus"tious*ly, adv. --
   Ro*bus"tious*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

robustious
    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]