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Robustious

Definition: Robustious

Robustious

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.
 

Date "robustious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

Etymology: Robustious \Ro*bus"tious\, adjective. [Compare to Latin robusteus of oak.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Robustious

Synonyms: boisterous (adj), rambunctious (adj), rumbustious (adj), unruly (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Robustious

English words defined with "robustious": boisterous ♦ rambunctious, rumbustious ♦ unruly. (references)

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Modern Translations: Robustious

Language Translations for "robustious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i zhurmshëm (clamorous, knock about, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, roaring, roistering, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vocal, vociferous), i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

шумен (barbaric, bustling, clamorous, knockabout, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, rambunctious, raucous, resounding, roaring, roistering, rollicking, rough and tumble, rowdy, rumbustious, slam-bang, slaphappy, smacking, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), нахакан (fresh, puppyish, pushful, pushing, pushy, smart). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

erõteljes (dynamic, energetic, firm, forceful, forcible, powerful). (various references)

   

Manx

  

kiaullaneagh (bell-like, blatant, clamorous, hectoring, loud, loud-mouthed, orchestral, randy, roistering, squealing, stormy, strident; roisterer, vociferous). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

obustiousray

   

Romanian

  

zgomotos (bacchanal, blusterous, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, loud, noisily, noisy, obstreperous, rampageous, Randy, rattling, resoundingly, riotous, roisterer, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous, wanton), impetuos (dashing, fiercely, headlong, heady, high-spirited, hothead, hot-headed, impetuous, impetuously, raging, rash, stormy, tumultuous, tumultuously). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

шумный (hilarious, knock about, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, roaring, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), буйный (blustery, boisterous, exuberant, frenetic, luxuriant, obstreperous, rambunctious, rampageous, rank, rowdy, turbulent, unruly, uproarious, wanton). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

robustan (robust), snažan (able bodied, burly, firm, forceful, hefty, lusty, mighty, powerful, robust, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, vivid, well knit). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

robust (robust, stalwart, well knit), kraftig (big, bouncing, crash, forcible, hale, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, high-powered, intense, lusty, meaty, potent, powerful, rich, robust, round, sinewy, spanking, stalwart, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, thick-set, vigorous, violent, virtuous). (various references)

   

Thai

  

หยาบคาย (caddish, disagreeable, ill-bred, indecency, indecent, mucky, neanderthal, ribald, rough, rude, swinish). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kaba saba (clownish, coarse, common, gauche, rank, robust, rough, rude), gürültülü (clamant, clamorous, clangorous, disorderly, hilarious, hurly burly, jazz, knockabout, loud, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, riotous, roaring, rumbustious, thundering, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

om sòm (mobbish, noisy, rakety, riotous, roaring, vociferant, vociferous), hay la lối; huênh hoang, ầm ĩ (loud, loudly, roaring, rumbustious). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Robustious

Derivations

Words beginning with "robustious": robustiously, robustiousness, robustiousnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Robustious"

Words rhyming with "robustious" (pronounced 'Ro*bus"tious'): Ablatitious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Addititious, Adjectitious, Adoptious, Adscititious, Adventitious, Ambitious, Arreptitious, Ascititious, Ascriptitious, Bumptious, Captious, Cautious, Cementitious, Cineritious, Collatitious, Combustious, Commentitious, Compunctious, Conceptious, Concupiscentious, Connutritious, Conscientious, Contentious, Deceptious, Defectious, Deglutitious, Deletitious, Fictious, flagitious, fractious, incautious, licentious, Negotious, Novitious, Nutritious, Obreptitious, Ostentatious, Overcautious, Pactitious, Pestilentious, Placentious, Precautious, Precipitious, Pretentious, Profectitious, Propitious, Recrementitious. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Robustious

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-i-o-o-r-s-s-t-u-u"

-3 letters: bistros, oboists, riotous, rubious, rubouts, suitors, tsooris, tsouris.

-4 letters: bistro, boosts, bruits, bursts, oboist, orbits, robots, robust, roosts, rousts, rubout, stours, subito, suitor, torous, torsos, tsoris, tsuris, turbos, tussor, tussur.

-5 letters: boors, boost, boots, borts, bouts, brios, brits, broos, bruit, burst, busts, obits, orbit, ousts, riots, risus, robot, roost, roots, rotis, rotos, roust.

 Words containing the letters "b-i-o-o-r-s-s-t-u-u"
 

+2 letters: robustiously.

 

+4 letters: robustiousness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Robustious


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 6F 62 75 73 74 69 6F 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01101111 01100010 01110101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 006F 0062 0075 0073 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52816887858675818785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, ‏الهنغاري, ‏مجري, ‏هنغاري, ‏المجري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian;
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