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Definition of boisterous



Overview of adj boisterous

The adj boisterous has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly

(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")

2. boisterous, knockabout

(full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy")

3. boisterous, fierce, rough

(violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas")