boisterous

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He proclaims that it is nothing less than "the birth of India as an independent society -- boisterous, colorful, vibrant, and, above all, ready for change."

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  1. adjective Rough and stormy; violent.
  2. adjective Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline. See Synonyms at vociferous.

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  • He proclaims that it is nothing less than "the birth of India as an independent society -- boisterous, colorful, vibrant, and, above all, ready for change." —  Breakthrough
  • It was an edifice built in times when human constitutions were damp-proof, when shelter from the boisterous was all that men thought of in choosing a dwelling-place, the insidious being beneath their notice; and its hollow site was an ocular reminder, by its unfitness for modern lives, of the fragility to which these have declined. —  The Woodlanders
  • Then he was boisterous, and his conversation not pleasant. —  The Virginians
  • The evening was boisterous -- scarcely better than the previous night had been. —  Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty
  • "A little too boisterous -- like the sea. —  Bleak House
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noisy ·  joyous ·  tumultuous ·  riotous ·  jovial ·  hearty ·  merry ·  stormy ·  impetuous ·  raucous ·  loud ·  irrepressible
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  1. Middle English boistres, variant of boistous, rude, rough, perhaps from Old French boisteus, lame, limping, from boiste, knee joint.

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  1. Early modern English also boystrous, boustrous, bowstrous, boistrous; from late Middle English boistrous, rough, coarse, a development, through the forms boisteous, boystuous, of the earlier form boistous, which it has now superseded: see boistous.
 

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