Obstreperous \Ob*strep"er*ous\, a. [L. obstreperus, from
obstrepere to make a noise at; ob (see Ob-) + strepere to
make a noise.]
1. Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise;
clamorous; noisy; vociferous. "The obstreperous city."
--Wordsworth. "Obstreperous approbation." --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. --B.
Jonson.
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2. Resistant to control; unruly.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
obstreperous
adj 1: noisily and stubbornly defiant; "obstreperous boys"
2: boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an
obstreperous clamor"
WordNet (r) 2.0
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "obstreperous":
bawling, beyond control, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering,
boanergean, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, breachy, clamant,
clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery,
contumacious, crying, defiant, disorderly, fractious,
impatient of control, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable,
insuppressible, intractable, irrepressible, loud, loudmouthed,
mafficking, multivocal, naughty, noiseful, noisy, openmouthed,
ornery, out of control, out of hand, rackety, rambunctious,
rampant, raucous, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, resisting,
restive, revolutionary, riotous, rip-roaring, roisterous, rowdy,
rumbustious, screaming, shouting, shrewish, strepitant, strepitous,
strident, tempestuous, terrorist, tumultuous, turbulent,
unbiddable, unbridled, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, undisciplined,
ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unrestrained,
unruly, unsubmissive, uproarious, vociferant, vociferating,
vociferous, wild, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelping
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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