Definitions for boisterous
ˈbɔɪ stər əs, -strəsbois·ter·ous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unrulyadjective

   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. boisterous, knockaboutadjective

   full of rough and exuberant animal spirits

   "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy"

3. boisterous, fierce, roughadjective

   violently agitated and turbulent

   "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. boisterousadjective

   Full of energy; exuberant; noisy.

2. boisterousadjective

   Characterized by violence and agitation; wild; stormy.

3. boisterousadjective

   Having or resembling animal exuberance.

4. Etymology: from boistous, from bustous, perhaps from boitous

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BOISTEROUSadjective

   Etymology: byster, furious, Dutch.

   1. Violent; loud; roaring; stormy.

   By a divine instinct, men’s minds mistrust
   Ensuing danger; as by proof we see
   The waters swell before a boisterous storm. William Shakespeare, R. III.

   As when loud winds a well-grown oak would rend
   Up by the roots, this way and that they bend
   His reeling trunk, and with a boist’rous sound
   Scatter his leaves, and strew them on the ground. Edmund Waller.

   2. Turbulent; tumultuous; furious.

   Spirit of peace,
   Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself
   Out of the speech of peace, that bears such grace,
   Into the harsh and boist’rous tongue of war? William Shakespeare, H. IV.

   His sweetness won a more regard
   Unto his place, than all the boist’rous moods
   That ignorant greatness practiseth. Ben Jonson, Catiline.

   God, into the hands of their deliverer,
   Puts invincible might,
   To quell the mighty of the earth, th’ oppressor,
   The brute and boist’rous force of violent men. John Milton.

   Still must I beg thee not to name Sempronius:
   Lucia; I like not that loud boisterous man. Joseph Addison, Cato.

   3. Unwieldy.

   His boisterous club, so buried in the ground,
   He could not rearen up again so light,
   But that the knight him at avantage found. Fairy Q. b. i.

   4. It is used by Woodward of heat.

   When the sun hath gained a greater strength, the heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for them. Natural History.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Boisterousadjective

   rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful

2. Boisterousadjective

   exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy

3. Boisterousadjective

   noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous behavior

4. Boisterousadjective

   vehement; excessive

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Boisterous

   bois′tėr-us, adj. wild: noisy: turbulent: stormy.—adv. Bois′terously.—n. Bois′terousness. [M. E. boistous, approximating, but not in sense, to the O. Fr. boisteus, whence modern boiteux, lame. The Celtic words throw no light upon its origin.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of boisterous in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of boisterous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of boisterous in a Sentence

1. Boston Harbor:

   The crowds are loud, boisterous, they love the marathon, they hang out, cheer. It's a good day for everybody.

2. Thomas Jefferson:

   The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

3. Thomas Jefferson:

   Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived have forced me to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

4. Priya Wal:

   When you play a character, you put parts of you in it. But I am a very different person off-screen. I am not so boisterous and not so tomboyish, in fact my friends bully me and I am like a damsel in distress. When you do a TV show, you become the character as you end up spending 14-15 hours on the sets.

5. Sanna Marin:

   I spent a night with my friends. We just partied, also in a boisterous way. I danced and sang.

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