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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noisy |
| Synonyms: | blusterous, boisterous, booming, clamorous, disorderly, loud, out of hand, piercing, raising Cain, raising the roof, rambunctious, riotous, rowdy, screaming, strepitous, tumultous, unmanageable, unruly, uproarious, vociferous, wild |
| Main Entry: | boisterous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | noisy and mischievous |
| Synonyms: | bouncy, brawling, clamorous, disorderly, effervescent, impetuous, loud, obstreperous, rambunctious, raucous, riotous, rollicking, rowdy, strident, tumultous/tumultuous, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, vociferant, vociferous, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, quiet, restrained, silent |
| Main Entry: | crotchety |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, often due to old age |
| Synonyms: | awkward, bad-tempered, bearish, cantankerous, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult, disagreeable, eccentric, fractious, grouchy, grumpy, irritable, obstinate, obstreperous, odd, ornery*, peevish, queer, surly, testy, unusual, vinegary, waspish, waspy |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | difficult |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unmanageable socially |
| Synonyms: | argumentative, bearish, boorish, dark, demanding, fastidious, finicky, fractious, fussy, grim, hard to please, impolite, intractable, irritable, oafish, obstreperous, perverse, picky, refractory, rigid, rude, tiresome, tough, troublesome, trying, unaccommodating, unamenable |
| Antonyms: | calm, friendly, sociable |
| Main Entry: | disobedient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | defiant, mischievous |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, disorderly, fractious, froward, headstrong, insubordinate, intractable, naughty, noncompliant, nonobservant, obstreperous, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, resistive, uncompliant, undisciplined, unruly, wayward, willful |
| Antonyms: | accepting, behaving, nice, obedient, observant, submitting |
| Main Entry: | disorderly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing trouble; unlawful |
| Synonyms: | boisterous, disobedient, disruptive, drunk, fractious, indisciplined, intemperate, noisy, obstreperous, off-base, on-a-tear, out-of-line, out-of-order, raucous, rebellious, refractory, riotous, rowdy, stormy, termagant, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uncompliant, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wayward |
| Antonyms: | behaved, conforming, disciplined, manageable, orderly, well-behaved |
| Main Entry: | disruptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing trouble, confusion |
| Synonyms: | disorderly, distracting, disturbing, obstreperous, off-base, out-of-line, out-of-order, rowdy, troublemaking, troublesome, unruly, unsettling, upsetting |
| Antonyms: | calming, disciplined, settling, soothing, well-behaved |
| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blaring, noisy |
| Synonyms: | big, blatant, blustering, boisterous, booming, cacophonous, clamorous, crashing, deafening, deep, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, emphatic, forte, full, full-mouthed, fulminating, heavy, high-sounding, intense, loud-voiced, lusty, obstreperous, pealing, piercing, powerful, rambunctious, raucous, resonant, resounding, ringing, roaring, rowdy, sonorous, stentorian, strident, strong, thundering, tumultuous, turbulent, turned up, uproarious, vehement, vociferous, wakes the dead |
| Antonyms: | inaudible, low, quiet, soft, subdued |
| Main Entry: | naughty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, misbehaved |
| Synonyms: | annoying, badly behaved, contrary, disobedient, disorderly, evil, exasperating, fiendish, fractious, froward, headstrong, impish, indecorous, insubordinate, intractable, mischievous, obstreperous, perverse, playful, rascally, raunchy, recalcitrant, refractory, rough, rowdy, sinful, teasing, tough, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wanton, wayward, wicked, willful, worthless, wrong |
| Antonyms: | behaved, controlled, good, obedient |
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