unruly

Speech parts

1. unruly - Adjective

3. unruly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

uncontrollable disobedient boisterous ungovernable indocile rambunctious robustious rumbustious difficult naughty wild contrary turbulent rebellious noisy

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Antonyms

good godly patient clean peaceful elevated

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Phrases with the word

unruly child

Derivatives

unrulier unruliest

Examples

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? John Donne

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul. Edgar Lee Masters

The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob. Lewis H. Lapham

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer. George Herbert

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie. Diana Wynne Jones

Hope is a very unruly emotion. Gloria Steinem

Close letter words and terms

unrulily unruliment unruliness unruly child unrulyness unruminated