Unruly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. wild; uncontrolled
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Disposed to resist rule or lawful restraint, or to violate laws laid down; lawless; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; disorderly; tumultuous: as, an unruly child.
  • Not according to rule; irregularly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of persons
  • adj. noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
  • adj. unwilling to submit to authority
  • Equivalent
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    lawless    disobedient   
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    unrulier    unruliest   
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