Rambunctious

Definition: Rambunctious

Rambunctious

Adjective

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Rambunctious

Crosswords: Rambunctious

Books

• Rambunctious Rattler (reference)

• The Livebait Cookbook: Rambunctious Seafood Cooking (reference)

• The Rambunctious Lady Royston (reference)

• The Town That Died Laughing: The Story of Austin, Nevada, Rambunctious Early-Day Mining Camp, and of Its Renowned Newspaper, the Reese River Reveill (reference)

• Wild Women in the Kitchen: 101 Rambunctious Recipes & 99 Tasty Tales (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i rrëmujshëm (disheveled, dishevelled, disorderly, hugger mugger, indiscriminate, pell mell, rampageous, rough and tumble, topsy turvy), i potershëm (jazz, knock about, obstreperous, rackety, rowdy, thundering, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), i panënshtruar (insubordinate, refractory, unamenable, unsubdued, unswayed, unyielding), i nevrikosur (frayed, het up, jumpy, rampageous), i inatosur (angry, annoyed, crusty, enraged, mad, rampageous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هائج (agitated, bad tempered, berserk, boiled, eruptive, fermentable, mad, nervy, phrenic, rampant, rapturous, restive, restless, riotous, rough, rousing, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шумен (barbaric, bustling, clamorous, knockabout, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, raucous, resounding, roaring, robustious, roistering, rollicking, rough and tumble, rowdy, rumbustious, slam-bang, slaphappy, smacking, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), опак (cantankerous, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross-grained, perverse, restive, reverse, wayward, wrong), необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, mad, obstreperous, orgiastic, phrenetic, rampageous, rampant, riotous, tearaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, vagrant, wanton, wild, zizzi), непокорен (contumacious, disaffected, disobedient, disorderly, indocile, insubordinate, recalcitrant, refractory, repugnant, restive, tumultuous, unbowed, uncontrollable, undutiful, unfilial, unruly, unsubdued, unsubmissive, untoward, wayward), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi). (various references)

Farsi 

وحشی (Barbaric, Barbarous, Brutal, Ferocious, Gross, Harebrained, Ruffian, Ruttish, Savage, Truculent, Uncivil, Uncivilized, Undaunted, Ungovernable, Unshaped(En), Wild), غیرقابل کنترل (Ungovernable), بی قانون وقاعده . (various references)

French

remuant, turbulent. (various references)

German

wild (berserk, boisterous, boisterously, bold, crook, deer, feral, ferocious, ferociously, fierce, frantic, furious, furiously, game, haggard, helter-skelter, illegal, rabid, rampant, riotous, riotously, rough, rugged, savage, savagely, truculently, undomesticated, ungovernable, unofficial, unruly, venison, wholesale, wild, wildcat, wildly). (various references)

Greek 

θορυβώδησ (blusterous, boisterous, clamorous, noisy, obstreperous, roaring, roisterous, rumbustious, uproarious, windy). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא ממושמע. (various references)

Hungarian

lármás (blustery, boisterous, clamorous, hue and cry, loud, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, rattling, robustic, robustious, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, vocal, vociferous), civakodó (bickering, brawling, cantankerous, cross-grained, frumpish, nagging, pugnacious, quarrelsome, shrewish, vixenly), zsivajgó (boisterous), zajosan rendetlen, zajongó (boisterous, clamorous, obstreperous, robustic, robustious, turbulent), vad (barbarian, barbarous, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frenzied, game, gothic, phrenetic, rabid, ramage, rampageous, rampant, robustic, rough and tumble, ruffianly, rumbustious, savage, tameless, truculent, wild), randalírozó, izgága (cantankerous, itchy, scratchy, stroppy), házsártos (cranky, cross-grained, frumpish, grousing, gruff, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scold, shrewd, shrewish, termagant, vixenish), féktelenkedő (obstreperous), duhaj (bacchanalian, obstreperous, rumbustious, turbulent). (various references)

Italian

chiassoso (blatant, boisterous, gaudy, noisy, rackety, Randy, rowdy). (various references)

Pig Latin

ambunctiousray.(various references)

Portuguese

violento (blustering, boisterous, desperate, drastic, elbow-grease, fierce, forceful, forcible, furious, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, impetuous, joggly, judas-colored, judas-coloured, rabid, racking, rampageous, rampant, red, rough, rude, ruffianly, sledge-hammer, smart, smashing, spasmodic, splitting, stormy, swashing, swingeing, tearing, tempestuous, thunderous, tough, towering, two-fisted, uncontrollable, vehement, viatic, violent, virulent), irresistível (cogent, irrepressible, irresistible, killing, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, resistless, uncontrollable, ungovernable), insubmisso (refractory, ungovernable, unruly, unsubmissive), indisciplinado (insubordinate, recalcitrant, turbulent, undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly, unschooled), indócil (fractious, restive, ungovernable, unmanageable, wayward), incontrolável (uncontrollable, ungovernable, unworkable), descomedido (riotous, ungovernable, unmeasured), bravio (savage, tameless, wild). (various references)

Russian 

сердитый (angry, crabbed, cross, grouty, grumpy, irate, rusty, shirty, snuffy, sour, surly), раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, crusty, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rusty, short tempered, snappish, snooty, snuffy, spleenful, splenetic, testy, touchy), неугомонный (fidgety, restless), непокорный (contumacious, disobedient, indocile, insubordinate, lawless, recalcitrant, ungovernable, unruly, unsubmissive), бурный (blusterous, blustery, boisterous, frenetic, gusty, heavy, hectic, rude, rugged, squally, stormy, tempestuous, turbulent, vulcanic), буйный (blustery, boisterous, exuberant, frenetic, luxuriant, obstreperous, rampageous, rank, robustious, rowdy, turbulent, unruly, uproarious, wanton). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nasilnički (violently), bučan (boisterous, clamorous, earsplitting, loud, noisy, obstreperous, plangent, roistering, rumbustious, tin-pan, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vocal, vociferous). (various references)

Spanish

pendenciero (quarreler, quarreller, quarrelsome, rowdy, squabbler, tough), bullicioso (boisterous, bustling, knockabout, lively, noisy, riotous, rip roaring, rowdy, rumbustious). (various references)

Swedish

uppsluppen (exhilarated, high-spirited, in high spirits, irrepressible, jolly, open, rollicking, wild). (various references)

Thai

ส่งเสียงอึกทึก. (various references)

Turkish

taşkın (boisterous, disorderly, ebullient, effusive, excessive, expansive, exuberant, flood, gushing, intemperate, overflowing, rumbustious, volcanic), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), gürültülü (clamant, clamorous, clangorous, disorderly, hilarious, hurly burly, jazz, knockabout, loud, noisy, rackety, riotous, roaring, robustious, rumbustious, thundering, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), delişmen (madcap, wild). (various references)

Ukrainian

сердитий (angry, crabbed, cross-grained, grouty, irate, porky, roily, shirty, sulky), галасливий (blusterous, blustery, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, hilarious, knockabout, noisy, obstreperous, open mouthed, rip roaring, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, screamy, wing-ding), невгамовний (fidgety, immitigable, indomitable, restless, sleepless, unbridled, wild). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dễ cáu (bilious, biliously, fiery, irascible, nervy, passionate, quick-tempered, raspy, waspish), dễ bực tức khó bảo, cứng đầu cứng cổ �"n � o huyên náo, bướng bỉnh (contrarious, contrary, contumacious, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, refractory, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rambunctious": rambunctiously, rambunctiousness, rambunctiousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rambunctious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ambunctious, rambuctious, rambuncious, rambuncsious, rambunctions, rambunctous, rambunetious, rambuntcious, rambuntious, rumbunctious. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: incubators.

-3 letters: aconitums, coumarins, incubator, obscurant, romantics, runabouts, subatomic, submicron, suctorian.

-4 letters: aconitum, acrotism, auctions, bimanous, biramous, burnouts, caribous, carotins, cautions, cautious, corbinas, coumarin, courants, craniums, cumarins, cumbrous, curtains, manitous, microbus, minorcas, miscount, monastic, mucinous, muticous, mutinous, natriums, naturism, outburns, rainouts, romantic, romaunts, ructions, ructious, runabout, subtonic, subtunic, surmount, taborins, tambours, tinamous, tsunamic.

+2 letters: rambunctiously.

+4 letters: rambunctiousness.

+5 letters: circumambulations.