Obstreperous

Definitions: Obstreperous

Obstreperous

Adjective

1. Noisily and stubbornly defiant; "obstreperous boys".

2. Boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an obstreperous clamor".

Date "obstreperous" was first used: 1600. (references)

Etymology: Obstreperous \Ob*strep"er*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression obstreperus, from obstrepere to make noise at; ob (see Ob-) strepere to make noise.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Violence	Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Obstreperous

English words defined with "obstreperous": bolshy ♦ Perstreperous ♦ stroppy ♦ truculence, truculency. (references)

Specialty definitions using "obstreperous": Frog's March ♦ RANDY, RUMBUMTIOUS. (references)

Etymologies containing "obstreperous": Streperous. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Obstreperous (reference) These obstreperous lassies : a history of the IWWU (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Obstreperous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Obstreperous" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	17	85,106

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "obstreperous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i zhurmshëm (clamorous, knock about, loud, loudmouthed, roaring, robustious, roistering, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vocal, vociferous), i potershëm (jazz, knock about, rackety, rambunctious, rowdy, thundering, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous). (various references)

Arabic		‏مشاكس (aggressive, bitchy, cantankerous, contentious, currish, dissentious, fresh, ornery, petulant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rowdy, sorehead, termagant, truculent), ‏ضاج (loud, rackety, raucous, uproarious), ‏صاخب (boisterous, discordant, furious, gusty, loud, loudmouthed, rackety, randy, rattling, raucous, riotous, rip roaring, roistering, saturnine, shrill, staring, tempestuous, termagant, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous). (various references)

Bulgarian		шумен (barbaric, bustling, clamorous, knockabout, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, openmouthed, rackety, rambunctious, raucous, resounding, roaring, robustious, roistering, rollicking, rough and tumble, rowdy, rumbustious, slam-bang, slaphappy, smacking, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, mad, orgiastic, phrenetic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, riotous, tearaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, vagrant, wanton, wild, zizzi), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, 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)

Chinese		吵闹 (Noised, Noising). (various references)

Czech		neukáznìný (disorderly, indisciplined, insubordinate, turbulent, undisciplined), hluèný (boisterous, clamant, clamorous, loud, lumbering, noisy, rowdy, uproarious, vociferous), divoký (boisterous, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, gone wild, truculent, uncivilized, unruly, untamed, wild, wildcat). (various references)

Farsi		پرهیاهو (Loudmouthed), پرسروصدا (Blatant, Loudmouthed, Noisy, Riproaring, Rowdy, Scrimmager, Unquiet, Uproarious, Vociferous), لجوج (Dogged, Dour, Headstrong, Intractable, Obdurate, Obstinate, Pertinacious, Set, Stickler, Stubborn, Stuffy), غوغاءی , دعواءی (Barrator, Bellicose, Contentious, Pugilist). (various references)

French		tapageur, rouspéteur, chahuteur, bruyant. (various references)

German		ungebärdig (skittish, unrulily, unruly). (various references)

Greek		ταραχώδησ (boisterous, rampageous, riotous, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), θορυβώδησ (blusterous, boisterous, clamorous, noisy, rambunctious, roaring, roisterous, rumbustious, uproarious, windy). (various references)

Hebrew		מתנגד בקולניות. (various references)

Hungarian		zajos (blatant, bodacious, boisterous, clamorous, loud, noisy, rattling, to lead a rollicking life, vocal, vociferous), lármás (blustery, boisterous, clamorous, hue and cry, loud, noisy, rackety, rambunctious, rattling, robustic, robustious, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, vocal, vociferous), hangos (ballyho, boisterous, clamorous, high-sounding, loud, noisy, robustic, robustious, vociferous). (various references)

Italian		rumoroso (blatant, clamant, loud, noisy, plangent, rackety, Randy, spoffish), indisciplinato (undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly). (various references)

Korean		시끄러운 (Noisy). (various references)

Manx		feiyragh (clamorous, noisy). (various references)

Pig Latin		obstreperousay

Portuguese		ruidoso (altisonant, blatant, jazz, knockabout, loud, noisy, rackety, rampageous, rattling, roistering, uproarious, viatic, windy), rebelde (contumacious, fractious, insubordinate, insurgent, insusceptibility, intramolecular, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, reluctant, restive, unamenable, unruly, unsubmissive), desregrado (disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, lawless, lecherous, licentious), barulhento (altisonant, blustering, bustling, clamant, clamorous, fussy, howling, judas-colored, judas-coloured, knockabout, loud, noisy, rackety, Randy, rattling, red, riotous, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious, viatic). (various references)

Romanian		zgomotos (bacchanal, blusterous, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, loud, noisily, noisy, rampageous, Randy, rattling, resoundingly, riotous, robustious, roisterer, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous, wanton), turbulent (boisterous, disorderly, noisy, Randy, riotous, turbulent, unschooled), nedisciplinat (undisciplined, ungovernable, unschooled), neascultãtor (contumacious, disobedient, errant, indocile, naughty, repugnant, unruly). (various references)

Russian		беспокойный (antsy, bothersome, disquiet, disquieting, fidgety, impatient, restive, restless, troublesome, troublous, uneasy, vexatious, worrier, worrisome, worrywart). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		buntovan (insurgent, insurrectional, insurrectionary, mutinous, rebellious, revolting, riotous, seditious, unruly), bučan (boisterous, clamorous, earsplitting, loud, noisy, plangent, rambunctious, roistering, rumbustious, tin-pan, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vocal, vociferous), šuman (murmurous, noisy). (various references)

Spanish		turbulento (disorderly, mutinous, restless, squally, stirring, troubled, troublous, turbulent, unruly, wild), ruidoso (blatant, loud, noisy, rackety, rowdy, rumbustious, vocal, wheezy), protestón (moaner, perpetual moaner), estrepitoso (boisterous, clangorous, deafening, loud, noisy, ranting, roistering, rowdy, uproarious), desmandado (disobedience, disobedient, wild). (various references)

Swedish		bullrande (boisterous, noisy, open mouthed). (various references)

Turkish		yaygaracı (blatant, clamorous, fussy, noisy, squaller), yaramaz (elfin, elvish, good for nothing, impish, little perisher, mischievous, naughty, non-effective, pickle, prankish, rogue, rompy, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, skittish, undisciplined, unmanageable, wicked), haşarı (naughty, rompy), gürültücü (blatant, boisterous, bouncing, noisy, rackety, rioter, ripsnorter, roisterer, rough, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent), ele avuca sığmaz (greasy, impracticable, out of hand, rompy, uncontrollable, unmanageable, unruly). (various references)

Ukranian		шумний (clamant, clamorous, hilarious, loud, noiseful, noisy, open mouthed, oral, rackety, roaring, shrill, slap bang, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), шумливий (boisterous, noisy), гомінкий, галасливий (blusterous, blustery, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, hilarious, knockabout, noisy, open mouthed, rambunctious, rip roaring, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, screamy, wing-ding), неспокійний (anxious, bothersome, choppy, disquiet, incommodious, nervous, old womanish, qualmish, restive, troubled, troublous, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, vexatious, worrisome). (various references)

Vietnamese		om sòm; la lối om sòm, phản đối om sòm hay quấy rối, bất trị, âm ỉ (latent, smouldering). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	obstreperus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "obstreperous": obstreperously, obstreperousness, obstreperousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Obstreperous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abstreperous, ibstreperous, obsreperous, obsteperous, obsterperous, obstreparous, obstreperious, obstreperus, obstrepherous, obstreporous, obstrepperous, obstriperous, obstroperous, obstrperous, obtreperous, ostreperous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "obstreperous" (pronounced 'Ob*strep"er*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-o-o-p-r-r-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: superstore.
	-3 letters: bourtrees, posturers, proestrus, proteoses, proteuses, resprouts, retrousse, superbest, tuberoses, uprooters.
	-4 letters: bespouse, boosters, bourrees, bourtree, bursters, espouser, oestrous, outpress, perturbs, perusers, portress, posturer, postures, presorts, pressure, presters, proteose, reposers, repousse, reprobes, reroutes, resprout, restores, robuster, roosters, rousters, soberest, sporters, spouters, stoopers, suberose, superber, superset, tressour, tressure, troopers, troupers, trousers, tuberose, uprooter.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-o-o-p-r-r-s-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: obstreperously.
	+4 letters: obstreperousness.
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