Word Study
rambunctious
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective rambunctious has 1 sense
- rambunctious(s = adj.all) boisterous, robustious, rumbustious, unruly - 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"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rambunctious, adj. US colloq.
1 uncontrollably exuberant.
2 unruly.
1 uncontrollably exuberant.
2 unruly.
Derivative
rambunctiously adv. rambunctiousness n.
Etymology
19th c.: orig. unkn.
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