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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very loud and unharmonious in sound |
| Synonyms: | blatant, blusterous, boisterous, booming, cacophonous, chattering, clamorous, clangorous, clattery, deafening, disorderly, ear-popping, ear-splitting, jumping, loudmouth, obstreperous, piercing, rackety, raising Cain, raising the roof, rambunctious, raspy, riotous, rowdy, screaming, strepitous, strident, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, turned up, uproarious, vociferous |
| Notes: | noisome means noxious, harmful, unwholesome or offensive to the smell or other senses, while noisy means full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds |
| Antonyms: | noiseless, quiet, silent, still |
| Main Entry: | raucous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rowdy |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, disorderly, intemperate, rambunctious, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, unruly |
| Notes: | raucous means unpleasantly loud and harsh or disturbing the public peace, while a ruckus is a disturbance or a commotion |
| Antonyms: | calm, quiet, subdued |
| Main Entry: | rebellious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient, unmanageable |
| Synonyms: | alienated, anarchistic, attacking, bellicose, contumacious, defiant, difficult, disaffected, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, fractious, iconoclastic, incorrigible, individualistic, insurgent, insurrectionary, intractable, mutinous, obstinate, pugnacious, quarrelsome, radical, rebel, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, restless, revolutionary, rioting, riotous, sabotaging, seditious, threatening, treasonable, turbulent, ungovernable, unruly, warring |
| Antonyms: | compliant, governable, manageable, obedient |
| Main Entry: | revolutionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
| Synonyms: | anarchistic, defiant, disobedient, disorderly, factious, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous, radical, rebel, rioting, riotous, subversive, warring |
| Main Entry: | riotous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chaotic, wild |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, deranged, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, helter-skelter, insurrectionary, lawless, mutinous, out of control, rampageous, rebellious, rowdy, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, uncontrolled, unruly, violent |
| Main Entry: | rootin'-tootin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rowdy |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, disorderly, loud, loudmouthed, mischievous, noisy, rambunctious, raucous, unruly, uproarious, vigorous, wild |
| Main Entry: | rowdy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boisterous, noisy |
| Synonyms: | disorderly, lawless, loud, loudmouthed, loutish, mischievous, obstreperous, rambunctious, raucous, rebellious, rough, roughhouse, rude, turbulent, unruly, uproarious, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, moderate, quiet, restrained |
| Main Entry: | runaway |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out of control |
| Synonyms: | delinquent, disorderly, escaped, fleeing, fugitive, loose, out of hand, running, uncontrolled, wild |
| Antonyms: | controlled, stable, staying, steady |
| Main Entry: | seditious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
| Synonyms: | anarchistic, bellicose, defiant, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, iconoclastic, insurgent, insurrectionary, mutinous, radical, rebel, resistant, revolutionary, riotous, subversive, treasonable, warring |
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