Definitions for unruliness

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

un•ru•lyʌnˈru li(adj.)-li•er, -li•est.

  1. not submissive or cooperative; ungovernable; unmanageable.

Origin of unruly:

1350–1400; ME unruely=un-un -1+ruly, ruely governable, controllable

un•ru′li•ness(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness(noun)

    the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

Wiktionary

  1. unruliness(Noun)

    The state of being unruly.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unruliness(noun)

    quality or state unruly


Translations for unruliness

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

unruliness(noun)

uncontrollable or disorderly

unruly teenagers/behaviour.

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