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

[ Syn: boisterous , rambunctious , robustious , rumbustious ]

unwilling to submit to authority; unruly teenagers

[ Syn: disobedient ]

of persons; the little boys parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly

[ Syn: indocile , uncontrollable , ungovernable ]