boisterous meaning and definition

BOISTEROUS adjective

Definition of boisterous (adjective)

1. 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"
   • synonyms: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly
2. full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
   • "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy"
   • synonyms: knockabout
3. violently agitated and turbulent
   • "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
   • synonyms: fierce, rough