Unruliest

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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           But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
           full of deadly poison.                   --James iii.
                                                    8.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unruly
       adj 1: 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}]
       2: unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn: {disobedient}]
       3: of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited,
          but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: {indocile}, {uncontrollable},
           {ungovernable}]
       [also: {unruliest}, {unrulier}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unruliest
       See {unruly}