Synonyms for rambunctious
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Boisterous — boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control
boisterous, unruly, disorderly, robustious dated
Other
wild, shandy UK, hyphy slang, rumbustical slang dated UK
Definitions
- adj. 1
Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control.
The kids are being especially rambunctious today.
Related words
- Other spellings
- rambustious rumbumptious rumbunctious rumbustious
Example sentences
- disorderly I was suspended from school for disorderly conduct.
- unruly The police managed to corral the unruly crowd.
- boisterous Tom and Johannes were as boisterous as children.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| rambunctious | rising | |
| disorderly | falling | |
| unruly | rising | |
| boisterous | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- wild1
- 5 letters
- hyphy
- 6 letters
- unruly3, shandy2
- 10 letters
- disorderly4, boisterous3, robustious
- 11 letters
- rumbustical
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (unruly3 = 3 syllables).