Textual thesaurus for "boisterous"

(adj) fierce, rough

violently agitated and turbulent

boisterous winds and waves; the fierce thunders roar me their music- Ezra Pound; rough weather; rough seas

(adj) unruly, robustious, rambunctious, 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

(adj) knockabout

full of rough and exuberant animal spirits

boisterous practical jokes; knockabout comedy