Unruly

4 definitions found

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

  Unruly \Unruly\
     See {ruly}.

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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
           full of deadly poison.                   --James iii.
                                                    8.
     [1913 Webster]

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

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "unruly":
     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