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Meaning of boisterous

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  boisterous
      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}, {unruly}]
      2: full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous
         practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy" [syn: {boisterous},
         {knockabout}]
      3: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and
         waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra
         Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: {boisterous},
         {fierce}, {rough}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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