Definitions for rambunctiousræmˈbʌŋk ʃəs

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

ram•bunc•tiousræmˈbʌŋk ʃəs(adj.)

  1. difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous.

  2. turbulently active and noisy.

Origin of rambunctious:

1820–30, Amer.

ram•bunc′tious•ness(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly(adj)

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. rambunctious(Adjective)

    Energetic, noisy, boisterous and difficult to control.

    The kids are being especially rambunctious today.

  2. Origin: Possibly alteration of rumbustious.


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