| Library / English Dictionary |
BOISTEROUS
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Violently agitated and turbulent
Example:
rough seas
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)
Derivation:
boisterousness (a turbulent and stormy state of the sea)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
Example:
an unruly class
Synonyms:
boisterous; rambunctious; robustious; rumbustious; unruly
Classified under:
Similar:
disorderly (undisciplined and unruly)
Derivation:
boisterousness (the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
Example:
knockabout comedy
Synonyms:
boisterous; knockabout
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)
Context examples:
It was boisterous October weather, and we had both remained indoors all day, I because I feared with my shaken health to face the keen autumn wind, while he was deep in some of those abstruse chemical investigations which absorbed him utterly as long as he was engaged upon them.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He saw the weak and sickly faces of the girls of the factories, and the simpering, boisterous girls from the south of Market.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I can remember that a black clock was ticking loudly upon the mantelpiece, and that every now and then, amid the rumble of the hackney coaches, we could hear boisterous laughter from some inner chamber.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They would have talked to me too, but I held back, and moped in my corner; scared by their love-making and hilarity, though it was far from boisterous, and almost wondering that no judgement came upon them for their hardness of heart.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They were good and kindly people, he forced himself to acknowledge, and in the moment of acknowledgment he qualified—good and kindly like all the bourgeoisie, with all the psychological cramp and intellectual futility of their kind, they bored him when they talked with him, their little superficial minds were so filled with emptiness; while the boisterous high spirits and the excessive energy of the younger people shocked him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
