What are some alternative words for boisterous?
Synonyms for boisterous
ˈbɔɪ stər əs, -strəs
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Princeton's WordNet
boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly(adj)
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"
Synonyms:
rambunctious, rumbustious, indocile, robustious, disobedient, rough, uncontrollable, ungovernable, knockabout, fierce, unrulyAntonyms:
orderly, spiritless, calmboisterous, knockabout(adj)
full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
"boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy"
Synonyms:
rambunctious, rumbustious, robustious, rough, knockabout, fierce, unrulyAntonyms:
orderly, spiritless, calmboisterous, fierce, rough(adj)
violently agitated and turbulent
"boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
Synonyms:
pugnacious, approximative, rough, fierce, trigger-happy, unsmooth, robustious, violent, bowelless, scratchy, ferocious, knockabout, uncut, jumpy, rocky, harsh, gravelly, approximate, cutthroat, vehement, rambunctious, rumbustious, jolting, unruly, jolty, rasping, bumpy, tearing, raspy, savage, furious, crude, gratingAntonyms:
calm, orderly, spiritless
English Synonyms and Antonyms
boisterous
Synonyms:
agitated, disturbed, excited, fierce, frantic, frenzied, furious, heated, passionate, raging, roused, ruffled, stormy, turbulent, violent, wild, wrathfulAntonyms:
calm, collected, composed, cool, dispassionate, imperturbable, peaceful, placid, quiet, sedate, self-possessed, serene, smooth, still, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
boisterous
Synonyms:
loud, violent, unrestrained, tempestuous, stormy, uncontrolled, intemperateAntonyms:
peaceful, calm, serene, selfpossessed
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
boisterous(a)
Synonyms:
noisy, tumultuous, turbulent, hoidenish, unrestrained, rude
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "boisterous":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2028 | wild | |
#5548 | rough | |
#5940 | violent | |
#5995 | rocky | |
#6352 | excited | |
#6888 | loud | |
#7759 | disturbed | |
#8049 | approximate | |
#9255 | heated | |
#9792 | savage | |
#9920 | crude | |
#11437 | harsh | |
#11710 | uncut | |
#12021 | passionate | |
#15142 | fierce | |
#16835 | furious | |
#18847 | raging | |
#20272 | turbulent | |
#22217 | tearing | |
#23805 | stormy | |
#24392 | uncontrolled | |
#24491 | frantic | |
#28023 | grating | |
#31151 | bustling | |
#32636 | bumpy | |
#37078 | agitated | |
#39424 | ferocious | |
#39613 | ruffled | |
#39714 | unruly | |
#40751 | uncontrollable | |
#47449 | cutthroat | |
#48392 | frenzied | |
#53753 | roused | |
#56945 | unrestrained | |
#59577 | scratchy | |
#60245 | boisterous | |
#62649 | disobedient | |
#68434 | gravelly | |
#74028 | jumpy | |
#76435 | vehement | |
#96709 | raspy | |
#101520 | rambunctious | |
#106455 | tempestuous | |
#118983 | wrathful | |
#127101 | intemperate | |
#133494 | pugnacious | |
#139637 | jolting | |
#147394 | rasping | |
#179979 | ungovernable | |
#191473 | knockabout | |
#241914 | approximative |
How to use boisterous in a sentence?
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.
Everyone in that building is afraid, when you have somebody who’s a large man, boisterous, loud — he pretty much convinces or scares anyone he’s with to get his way.
The crowds are loud, boisterous, they love the marathon, they hang out, cheer. It's a good day for everybody.
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Translations for boisterous
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- عاصفArabic
- бурен, шумен, буенBulgarian
- sorollós, escandalósCatalan, Valencian
- ausgelassen, tosend, ungestüm, stürmischGerman
- bruemaEsperanto
- ruidoso, salvaje, escandalosoSpanish
- turbulente, tapageur, turbulent, bruyantFrench
- féktelenHungarian
- chiassoso, tempestoso, esuberante, turbolenteItalian
- 賑やか, 喧しい, 騒々しい, うるさいJapanese
- tuarangaranga, tūperepereMāori
- stormachtig, driestDutch
- hałaśliwyPolish
- шумливый, бурный, буйный, неистовый, шумныйRussian
- razigran, bučan, neobuzdanSerbo-Croatian
- stormigSwedish
- biển độngVietnamese
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