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Antonyms for unruly
ʌnˈru liun·ru·ly

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. unruly

    Balky, mulish, obstinate, and stubborn are synonyms of restive only in an infrequent if not obsolete use; the supposed sense of "tending to rest," "standing stubbornly still," is scarcely supported by any examples, and those cited to support that meaning often fail to do so. The disposition to offer active resistance to control by any means whatever is what is commonly indicated by restive in the best English speech and literature. Dryden speaks of "the pampered colt" as "restiff to the rein;" but the rein is not used to propel a horse forward, but to hold him in, and it is against this that he is "restiff." A horse may be made restless by flies or by martial music, but with no refractoriness; the restive animal impatiently resists or struggles to break from control, as by bolting, flinging his rider, or otherwise. With this the metaphorical use of the word agrees, which is always in the sense of such terms as impatient, intractable, rebellious, and the like; a people restive under despotism are not disposed to "rest" under it, but to resist it and fling it off.

    Antonyms:
    docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, passive, peaceable, quiet, submissive, tractable, yielding

    Synonyms:
    balky, fidgety, fractious, fretful, frisky, impatient, intractable, mulish, mutinous, obstinate, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, resentful, restiff, restive, restless, skittish, stubborn, vicious

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. unruly

    Synonyms:
    ungovernable, unmanageable, refractory

Princeton's WordNet2.5 / 2 votes

  1. boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unrulyadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    manageable, orderly, subordinate

    Synonyms:
    rambunctious, rumbustious, indocile, robustious, disobedient, rough, uncontrollable, boisterous, ungovernable, knockabout, fierce

  2. disobedient, unrulyadjective

    unwilling to submit to authority

    "unruly teenagers"

    Antonyms:
    manageable, subordinate, orderly

    Synonyms:
    rambunctious, rumbustious, indocile, robustious, disobedient, uncontrollable, boisterous, ungovernable

  3. indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrulyadjective

    of persons

    "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"

    Antonyms:
    subordinate, manageable, orderly

    Synonyms:
    rambunctious, rumbustious, irrepressible, indocile, robustious, disobedient, uncorrectable, uncontrollable, boisterous, ungovernable, unmanageable

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. unrulyadjective

    Synonyms:
    turbulent, ungovernable, refractory, insubordinate, fractious, insurgent, indocile, disobedient, froward, vicious, intractable, rebellious

How to use unruly in a sentence?

  1. Layne Watson:

    The customer was restrained and law enforcement officials met the flight at the gate, where all passengers safely deplaned. The unruly customer was held for questioning by law enforcement.

  2. Ron DeSantis:

    Sending unruly mobs to private residences, like we have seen with the angry crowds in front of the homes of Supreme Court justices, is inappropriate, this bill will provide protection to those living in residential communities, and I am glad to sign it into law.

  3. Steve Dickson:

    We will no longer adjudicate certain of these unruly passenger cases with counseling or warnings. We’re going to go straight to enforcement.

  4. Nicole Perna:

    Chris is currently in Las Vegas as he is performing at Drai's on May 5th and receiving a Key to the Strip that day as well, he has a suite at the hotel that has a basketball court and invited friends to come play. An unruly individual showed up uninvited and was removed from the premises. Chris was not in an altercation with this person.

  5. Yaron Brook:

    But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#4205quiet
#8075gentle
#8588passive
#18856yielding
#18868subordinate
#20349orderly
#22418manageable
#29257submissive
#35374obedient
#39714unruly
#62800tractable
#66707docile
#69570peaceable

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