un·ru·ly

(ŭn-ro͞o′lē)

adj. un·ru·li·er, un·ru·li·est

1. Difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule: The substitute teacher faced unruly students in the classroom.

2. Difficult to keep in place or in order: tried to comb his unruly hair; trimmed back the unruly bushes.

[Middle English unreuli : un-, not; see un-¹ + reuli, easy to govern (from reule, rule; see rule).]

un·ru′li·ness n.

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unruly

(ʌnˈruːlɪ)

adj, -lier or -liest

disposed to disobedience or indiscipline

unˈruliness, unˈruliment n

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un•ru•ly

(ʌnˈru li)

adj. -li•er, -li•est.

not submissive or cooperative; ungovernable; unmanageable.

[1350–1400; Middle English unruely=un- un-¹ + ruly, ruely governable, controllable]

un•ru′li•ness, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	unruly - 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, rumbustious disorderly - undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct"
	2.	unruly - unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" disobedient insubordinate - not submissive to authority; "a history of insubordinate behavior"; "insubordinate boys"
	3.	unruly - of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly" indocile, ungovernable, uncontrollable difficult, unmanageable - hard to control; "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"

unruly

adjective uncontrollable, wild, unmanageable, disorderly, turbulent, rebellious, wayward, rowdy, intractable, wilful, lawless, fractious, riotous, headstrong, mutinous, disobedient, ungovernable, refractory, obstreperous, insubordinate It's not good enough just to blame the unruly children.
manageable, obedient, docile, orderly, amenable, tractable, biddable, governable

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unruly

adjective

Not submitting to discipline or control:

disorderly, fractious, indocile, intractable, lawless, obstinate, obstreperous, recalcitrant, refractory, uncontrollable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, untoward, wild.

Idiom: out of line.

Translations

صَعْب المِراس، غَيْر مِطواع

neukázněný

uregerligvild

óstÿrilátur

nesuvaldomumas

nepaklausīgsnevaldāms

непослушный

nedisciplinovaný

idaresi zorzaptolunamaz

任性的难控制的

unruly

[ʌnˈruːlɪ] ADJ (unrulier (compar) (unruliest (superl)))

1. [behaviour] → rebelde; [child] → revoltoso; [mob] → alterado

2. (liter) [hair] → rebelde

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unruly

[ʌnˈruːli] adj

[child, behaviour] → indiscipliné(e); [crowd] → incontrôlé(e)

[hair] → indiscipliné(e)

unruly

adj (+er) child, behaviour → wild, ungebärdig; employee → schwer kontrollierbar, aufmüpfig (hum inf); elements, crowd, mob → wild, tobend; hair → widerspenstig, nicht zu bändigend attr; unruly passenger (Aviat) → randalierender Passagier

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unruly

[ʌnˈruːlɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (behaviour) → indisciplinato/a; (child, mob) → turbolento/a; (hair) → ribelle

unruly

(anˈruːli) adjective

uncontrollable or disorderly. unruly teenagers/behaviour.

unˈruliness noun