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: rambunctious , robustious , rumbustious , unruly ]

full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; boisterous practical jokes; knockabout comedy

[ Syn: knockabout ]

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

[ Syn: fierce , rough ]