unruly
Meaning of unruly
adjective
- disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control.
a group of unruly children
Kate tried to control her unruly emotions
late Middle English: from un-1 ‘not’ + archaic ruly ‘amenable to discipline or order’ (from rule).
Information about unruly
- It is an adjective.
- Languages in which unruly is used:
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Hyphenation of unruly
un-ruly
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- unruly is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
unruly synonyms
Meaning boisterous:
boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious
Meaning disobedient:
Meaning indocile:
indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable
Meaning involving or contributing to a breakdown of peaceful and law-abiding behaviour:
Meaning noisy and disorderly:
Meaning lacking discipline or restraint:
Meaning difficult or impossible to manage, manipulate, or control:
Meaning causing or tending to cause disruption:
Meaning lacking in discipline; uncontrolled in behaviour or manner:
Meaning showing a desire to resist authority, control, or convention:
Meaning (of a soldier or sailor) refusing to obey the orders of a person in authority:
Meaning with no controlling rules or principles to give order:
Meaning in a state of complete confusion and disorder:
Meaning not governed by or obedient to laws; characterized by a lack of civic order:
Meaning defiant of authority; disobedient to orders:
Meaning showing defiance:
Meaning difficult to control or predict because of wilful or perverse behaviour:
Meaning (of a bad or harmful act) intentional; deliberate:
Meaning energetically wilful and determined:
Meaning not able to be controlled or restrained:
Meaning not restrained or restricted:
Meaning noisy and difficult to control:
Meaning needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand:
Meaning hard to control or deal with:
Meaning stubborn or unmanageable:
Meaning having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline:
Meaning full of life and energy; active and outgoing:
Meaning producing or capable of producing much noise:
Meaning making or given to making a lot of noise:
Meaning exuberantly lively and amusing:
Meaning (especially of a child or animal) play roughly and energetically:
Meaning heedless of danger or the consequences of one's actions; rash or impetuous:
Meaning showing a reckless lack of care or attention:
Meaning (especially of a defendant's behaviour) stubbornly or wilfully disobedient to authority:
unruly antonyms
Meaning showing a controlled form of behaviour or way of working:
Meaning complying or willing to comply with an order or request; submissive to another's authority:
Translation of unruly
- German: wild, unbändig, ungestüm
- Spanish: arrugado, desaliñado, borrascoso
- French: ébourrifé, désordonné, violent
- Italian: violento, chiassoso, irruento, burrascoso, scatenato
Words that rhyme with unruly
ruly, wanruly, barruly, disruly, misruly, overtruly, truly, untruly
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