Adjective boisterous has 3 senses
- boisterous, rambunctious, 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"
Antonym: orderly (indirect, via disorderly)
- boisterous, knockabout - full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy"
Antonym: spiritless (indirect, via spirited)
- boisterous, fierce, rough - violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"
Antonym: calm (indirect, via stormy)
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