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 Definitions of unruly  [ʌnˈru li]  

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Definition of 'unruly' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) unruly
not submissive or cooperative; ungovernable; unmanageable.

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

Definition of 'unruly' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) 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"

2. (adj) disobedient, unruly
unwilling to submit to authority
"unruly teenagers"

3. (adj) indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly
of persons
"the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly"


Definition of 'unruly' Webster Dictionary 

1.  unruly
not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct


Translation of 'unruly' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: uncontrollable or disorderly
unruly teenagers/behaviour.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: rumoerig Arabic flag Arabic: صَعْب المِراس، غَيْر مِطو Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: буен
Brazilian flag Brazilian: indisciplinado Czech flag Czech: neukázněný German flag German: unbändig
Danish flag Danish: uregerlig; vild Greek flag Greek: ατίθασος, ανεξέλεγκτος Spanish flag Spanish: indisciplinado
Estonian flag Estonian: kontrollimatu Farsi flag Farsi: سرکش Finnish flag Finnish: kuriton
French flag French: indiscipliné Hebrew flag Hebrew: לא מְמוּשמָע Hindi flag Hindi: बेलगाम
Croatian flag Croatian: nepokoran Hungarian flag Hungarian: engedetlen Indonesian flag Indonesian: tak terkendali
Icelandic flag Icelandic: óstÿrilátur Italian flag Italian: indisciplinato Japanese flag Japanese: 手に負えない
Korean flag Korean: 제어하기 어려운 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: nesuvaldomas, nepaklusnus Latvian flag Latvian: nepaklausīgs; nevaldāms
Malay flag Malay: tdk mudah dikawal Dutch flag Dutch: onhandelbaar Norwegian flag Norwegian: ustyrlig, uregjerlig, vil
Polish flag Polish: niezdyscyplinowany, niesf Portuguese flag Portuguese: indisciplinado Romanian flag Romanian: de necontrolat
Russian flag Russian: непослушный Slovak flag Slovak: nedisciplinovaný, priečny Slovenian flag Slovenian: neposlušen
Serbian flag Serbian: neposlušan Swedish flag Swedish: ostyrig, bångstyrig Thai flag Thai: ซึ่งไม่สามารถควบคุมได้
Turkish flag Turkish: zaptolunamaz, idaresi zor Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 難控制的, 任性的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: непокірний, неслухняний
Urdu flag Urdu: منہہ زور، سرکش Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: ngang bướng, ương ngạnh Chinese flag Chinese: 难控制的,任性的

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