'Unruly' definitions:
Definition of 'unruly'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, unruly]
adjective
Unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn: disobedient, unruly]
adjective
Of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly]
Definition of 'Unruly'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'unruly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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