Unruly \Unruly\
See ruly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Unruly \Un*rul"y\, a. [Compar. Unrulier, superl. Unruliest.]
[Pref. un- not + rule. Cf. Ruly.]
Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to
violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly
boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct.
[1913 Webster]
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
full of deadly poison. --James iii.
8.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unruly
adj 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" [syn: boisterous, rambunctious,
robustious, rumbustious]
2: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn: disobedient]
3: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited,
but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: indocile, uncontrollable,
ungovernable]
[also: unruliest, unrulier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "unruly":
abandoned, anarchial, anarchic, anarchistic, antinomian,
beyond control, boisterous, breachy, chaotic, contrary,
contumacious, defiant, disobedient, disorderly, disorganized,
fractious, froward, go-go, hard, headstrong, immoderate,
impatient of control, incontinent, incorrigible, indocile,
indomitable, indulgent, insubordinate, insuppressible, intemperate,
intractable, irrepressible, lawless, lax, licentious, loose,
mutinous, naughty, nihilistic, nonrestrictive, obstreperous,
ornery, out of control, out of hand, permissive, perverse, raffish,
rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, raucous, rebellious,
recalcitrant, refractory, reinless, resistant, resisting, restive,
revolutionary, riotous, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, rumbustious,
shrewish, stormy, stubborn, syndicalistic, tempestuous, termagant,
terrorist, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, unbiddable, unbridled,
unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrollable,
uncontrolled, uncooperative, uncurbed, undisciplined, unforced,
ungovernable, ungoverned, uninhibited, unmalleable, unmanageable,
unmastered, unmeasured, unmoldable, unmuzzled, unreined,
unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unsubdued,
unsubmissive, unsuppressed, untoward, violent, wanton, wayward,
wild
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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