boisterous

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
  2. adjective full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
  3. adjective violently agitated and turbulent; ; - Ezra Pound

Etymology

From Middle English boistres, an alteration of Middle English boistous (“crude, unrefined”), of uncertain origin. Likely from Anglo-Norman boystous, bustous (“rough, in a crude state, disabled, paralysed, unable to walk, lame”), Old French boitous (“limping; having a rough, uneven surface”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly

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