rumbustious (redirected from rumbustiously)

rum·bus·tious  (rm-bschs)

adj.

Uncontrollably exuberant; unruly: "Common to both his illustrations and his independent paintings . . . and lurking below their rumbustious surface, is a sympathy for the vulnerability of the ordinary human being" (Christopher Andreae).

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[Probably alteration of robustious (influenced by rambunctious).]

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rum·bustious·ly adv.

rum·bustious·ness n.

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rumbustious

Adjective

boisterous or unruly [probably variant of robustious]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

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

Translations

rumbustious [rʌmˈbʌstʃəs] adj [person] → bullicioso

rumbustious [rʌmˈbʌstʃəs], rumbunctious [rʌmˈbʌŋkʃəs] adj (US) [person] → exubérant(e)

rumbustious [rʌmˈbʌstʃəs] adj (person) → ungebärdig

rumbustious [rʌmˈbʌstʃəs] adj [person]: to be rumbustious → essere un terremoto