rambunctious (redirected from rambunctiousness)

ram·bunc·tious  (rm-bngkshs)

adj.

Boisterous and disorderly.

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[Probably alteration of robustious, rumbustious, from robust.]

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ram·bunctious·ly adv.

ram·bunctious·ness n.

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

rambunctious - 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" boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly disorderly - undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct"