Obstreperous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Obstreperous \Ob*strep"er*ous\, a. [L. obstreperus, from
     obstrepere to make a noise at; ob (see {Ob-}) + strepere to
     make a noise.]
     1. Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise;
        clamorous; noisy; vociferous. "The obstreperous city."
        --Wordsworth. "Obstreperous approbation." --Addison.


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              Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. --B.
                                                    Jonson.
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     2. Resistant to control; unruly.
        [PJC] -- {Ob*strep"er*ous*ly}, adv. --
        {Ob*strep"er*ous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  obstreperous
       adj 1: noisily and stubbornly defiant; "obstreperous boys"
       2: boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an
          obstreperous clamor"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "obstreperous":
     bawling, beyond control, blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering,
     boanergean, boisterous, brassy, brawling, brazen, breachy, clamant,
     clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery,
     contumacious, crying, defiant, disorderly, fractious,
     impatient of control, incorrigible, indocile, indomitable,
     insuppressible, intractable, irrepressible, loud, loudmouthed,
     mafficking, multivocal, naughty, noiseful, noisy, openmouthed,
     ornery, out of control, out of hand, rackety, rambunctious,
     rampant, raucous, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, resisting,
     restive, revolutionary, riotous, rip-roaring, roisterous, rowdy,
     rumbustious, screaming, shouting, shrewish, strepitant, strepitous,
     strident, tempestuous, terrorist, tumultuous, turbulent,
     unbiddable, unbridled, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, undisciplined,
     ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unrestrained,
     unruly, unsubmissive, uproarious, vociferant, vociferating,
     vociferous, wild, yammering, yapping, yelling, yelping