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Rambunctious   /ræmbˈəŋkʃəs/   Listen
Rambunctious

adjective
1.
Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline.  Synonyms: boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly.  "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"






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"Rambunctious" Quotes from Famous Books



... rally as that which has taken place in response to Sir Edward's cry. In the first place, as you know, he is the most gentle of all the Cabinet, the last man to get on a "war-rampage," the least belligerent and rambunctious of the whole lot. When he felt moved to say that there can be no peace till the German military despotism is broken, everybody from one end of the Kingdom to the other seems to have thrown up his hat and applauded. Except the half-dozen ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick



Words linked to "Rambunctious" :   disorderly



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