What are some alternative words for unruly?
Synonyms for unruly
ʌnˈru li
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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, boisterous, ungovernable, knockabout, fierceAntonyms:
manageable, orderly, subordinatedisobedient, unruly(adj)
unwilling to submit to authority
"unruly teenagers"
Synonyms:
rambunctious, rumbustious, indocile, robustious, disobedient, uncontrollable, boisterous, ungovernableAntonyms:
manageable, subordinate, orderlyindocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly(adj)
of persons
"the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"
Synonyms:
rambunctious, rumbustious, irrepressible, indocile, robustious, disobedient, uncorrectable, uncontrollable, boisterous, ungovernable, unmanageableAntonyms:
subordinate, manageable, orderly
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
Synonyms:
balky, fidgety, fractious, fretful, frisky, impatient, intractable, mulish, mutinous, obstinate, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, resentful, restiff, restive, restless, skittish, stubborn, viciousAntonyms:
docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, passive, peaceable, quiet, submissive, tractable, yielding
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
unruly
Synonyms:
ungovernable, unmanageable, refractory
Dictionary of English Synonymes
unruly(a.)
Synonyms:
turbulent, ungovernable, refractory, disobedient, insubordinate, mutinous, riotous, seditious, rebellious
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
unruly(a)
Synonyms:
turbulent, ungovernable, refractory, insubordinate, fractious, insurgent, indocile, disobedient, froward, vicious, intractable, rebellious
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "unruly":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#5548 | rough | |
#15142 | fierce | |
#15992 | vicious | |
#16417 | wrongful | |
#18495 | restless | |
#20272 | turbulent | |
#24054 | stubborn | |
#27763 | refractory | |
#27965 | impatient | |
#33175 | rebellious | |
#39319 | disorderly | |
#39714 | unruly | |
#40751 | uncontrollable | |
#42831 | intractable | |
#60245 | boisterous | |
#61633 | frisky | |
#62649 | disobedient | |
#64747 | unmanageable | |
#65748 | resentful | |
#66176 | obstinate | |
#70249 | recalcitrant | |
#77881 | irrepressible | |
#95129 | undisciplined | |
#100787 | skittish | |
#101493 | restive | |
#101520 | rambunctious | |
#111798 | fidgety | |
#111963 | fractious | |
#166645 | fretful | |
#179979 | ungovernable | |
#183607 | mutinous | |
#191473 | knockabout | |
#212583 | uncorrectable | |
#228084 | balky |
How to use unruly in a sentence?
The current regime of unregulated, unruly, unethical influence companies both makes us unsafe and undermines democratic debate.
The closure of the school is really a source of concern and very disturbing to us who have unruly children and wards.
When I started it, I thought it would last for one year, so, it's turned out to be a very unruly but long-lasting child.
We will no longer adjudicate certain of these unruly passenger cases with counseling or warnings. We’re going to go straight to enforcement.
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.
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