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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
blaring, blatant, blatting, blustering, blusterous, blustery, brassy, brawling, brazen, bullying, clamant, clamorous, clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, disorderly, exuberant, harum-scarum, hectoring, knock-down-and-drag-out, knockabout, lively, loudmouthed, mafficking, multivocal, noiseful, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, raging, rambunctious, rampageous, ranting, raucous, raving, riotous, rip-roaring, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, rough, rough-and-tumble, rowdy, rowdyish, storming, stormy, strepitant, strepitous, strident, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, termagant, tumultuous, turbulent, undisciplined, unruly, uproarious, vociferant, vociferous, wild
Dictionary Results for boisterous:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Boisterous \Bois"ter*ous\, a. [OE. boistous; of uncertain
   origin; cf. W. bwyst wild, savage, wildness, ferocity,
   bwystus ferocious.]
   1. Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
      [Obs.] "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." --Shak.
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   2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy
      turbulence; violent; rough; stormy.
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            The waters swell before a boisterous storm. --Shak.
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            The brute and boisterous force of violent men.
                                                  --Milton.
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   3. Noisy; rough; turbulent; as, boisterous mirth; boisterous
      behavior.
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            I like not that loud, boisterous man. --Addison.
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   4. Vehement; excessive. [R.]
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            The heat becomes too powerful and boisterous for
            them.                                 --Woodward.
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   Syn: Loud; roaring; violent; stormy; turbulent; furious;
        tumultuous; noisy; impetuous; vehement.
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